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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:33:29 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:45:15 +0200
Joost Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:

> I consider dbus to be part of the GUI as I don't see a reason for
> apache, syslog, nfs, samba,.... to be using dbus to communicate with
> each other.

To be fair, dbus could be useful for service apps too. It provides a
standard message bus that everything can understand, it's small, light,
with a clearly defined focus and even better, could be entirely
optional.


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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com