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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: DBUS [was] Re: [gentoo-user] systemd
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:35:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiBZ_bh1bHYSsD7F3mfKrf_pQVH5_JV96Sj7jx-dPM-4mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

(renaming, because it feels like a rant thread is inevitable)

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Stroller
>> Reading that blog entry I found discouraging the idea that dbus might be required on my servers in the future, if systemd becomes popular with distros.
>
> I don't see the problem with D-Bus. It's small (the only hard
> dependency it has is an XML parser), and it provides the Linux/UNIX
> (de facto) standard interprocess communication system.

My chief gripe with D-Bus is that I've had X sessions disappear out
from under me as a consequence of the daemon being restarted. Having a
single point of failure like that is very, very scary. Otherwise, I
like what it tries to do.

-- 
:wq



             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-23 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-23 18:35 Michael Mol [this message]
2011-08-23 18:57 ` DBUS [was] Re: [gentoo-user] systemd Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-23 19:08   ` Michael Mol
2011-08-23 19:47     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-23 20:18       ` Michael Mol
2011-08-23 20:53         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-08-24  5:40           ` Michael Mol

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