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Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade



On Thu 15 Aug 2019 at 22:15:59 +0100, Tixy wrote:

> On Thu, 2019-08-15 at 19:41 +0100, Brian wrote:
> > The fact remains that dbus is not a DE only package. How did anyone
> > get the idea it was?
> 
> Perhaps because D-Bus stands for Desktop Bus and according to Wikipedia
> [1]
> 
>    D-Bus was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project [...] to
>    standardize services provided by Linux desktop environments such as
>    GNOME and KDE.
> 
> It's seems quite reasonable to me for people to jump to the conclusion
> that it's not likely relevant for servers.
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus

Jumping to conclusions is the ideal way of neglecting facts and promoting
fallacious assertions. I have given two examples that challenge

  dbus "...is redundant for typical server software"

-- 
Brian.


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