Re: kdbus: to merge or not to merge?

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2015, 09:34:56 schrieb Theodore Ts'o:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 08:05:58AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Or, do you think, that there is a different option to handle this then
> > the both I outlined above?
> 
> Hmm... distros could have their engineers **fix** the busted userspace
> code, instead of fixing the problem by jamming a different
> implementation into the kernel?

Hmm, I read on Devuan mailing list, that Qt engineers work on doing dbus 
directly inside Qt instead of using the existing libdbus. I did not verify 
this claim yet. But considering what I read here about performance issues 
with libdbus I think it would make quite some sense.

Also I wonder who will use sdbus stuff from systemd / libsystemd â I sure 
hope sdbus will work without systemd running as PID 1, but I am not clear on 
this either â from the desktop environment people beside xdg-app. I doubt 
that Qt will depend on it, being available for more than the Linux platform.

And if GNOME wants to be portable to the BSD variants at least, they canÂt 
depend on it either.

So who will use non portable sdbus anyway â except specialized apps?

In case I missed this in the discussion so far, sorry, but from what I read 
from the various threads I am really not clear on this.

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