Re: D-Bus RPM Provides?

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 13:04 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> I discovered that many org.freedesktop.Notifications server packages
> provide `desktop-notification-daemon' RPM symbol. I think it would be
> much better if the dependency was expressed as, e.g.,
> `dbus(org.freedesktop.Notifications)'. It would be more generic and it
> would allow to express the dependencies not only for desktop
> notificiations servers. The Provides symbols could be generated by
> rpm-build scripts from the D-Bus service definition files.
>
> Is this idea worth for pursuing?

I think it would be worthwhile, yes.  The question of how to enumerate
the dbus services in the OS has come up before, and it's lame that we
don't try to track it.

- ajax