Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 09:53:20AM +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:36:57PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > 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"
>
> The first one being "apt cache rdepends"? You can do better than this.
>
> The second one being CUPS? dbus is not required for printing itself.
Also, most servers don't deal with ink-and-paper printing. At all.
Brian asked how people would conclude things about D-Bus, and Tixy gave
a completely legitimate answer. It was an answer I had been considering
writing myself, but I was lazy.
The name is *literally* an abbreviation for Desktop Bus, and you (Brian)
claim you don't understand why people think it's only for desktop systems?
Come on.
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