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

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Tue Nov 1 20:13:38 UTC 2005


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?

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