Needed dependency for all packages that require the D-Bus session bus

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Tue Nov 1 20:29:22 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:13 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:05 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> > All packages that require the use of the D-Bus session must add a
> > requirement on dbus-x11.  This package brings in the dbus-launch utility
> > that starts the session bus.  Without it the session bus does not get
> > started.   It hasn't been a problem for most because comps brings in
> > desktop-printing which has a requirement on dbus-x11.  For those who do
> > not have this installed (nothing depends on desktop-printing so the
> > situation can come up) will not get the dbus-x11 package and any
> > application using the session bus will not be able to function at their
> > full capacity.  Thank you.
> 
> Which package is it that actually invokes dbus-launch? Shouldn't that
> package Require it instead?

xinitrc and no because it has logic to say if the dbus-launch binary
does not exist don't run it.

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