Dne 12. 03. 20 v 6:21 Chris Murphy napsal(a):
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 8:30 AM Daniel Mach <dmach(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
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> Dne 04. 03. 20 v 23:01 Neal Gompa napsal(a):
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 4:37 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>> <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
>>> Are you going to use sd-bus for the dbus library?
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>> I'd hope not, given that we have cross-distro usage of DNF now, and a
>> couple of them don't have systemd.
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> Do you know which distros do not have systemd?
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> We have evaluated sd-bus to be the best dbus client available, but we
> may have underestimated it's adoption.
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> Couldn't systemd team split it into a separate library independent on
> the rest of the systemd eco-system? :)
Is varlink applicable here? I mention it because I've come across it
being used by systemd-homed. It's intended to be available during
early boot.
We have considered both dbus and varlink and decided to use dbus. Dbus
has better adoption and we'll be replacing a dbus service (PackageKit)
with another.