[Bluez-devel] [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] dbus dependency introduces unwanted X11 dependency

[Filippo Giunchedi]

Hello Marcel,

On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 06:14:16PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > > With the new version, dbus gets pulled in. Why?
> > > Isn't libdbus enough?
> > 
> > starting with bluez 3.x most of the functionality has been moved to dbus, which
> > is used among other things for pinhelper functionalities.
> > and no, libdbus isn't enough unless I'm missing something, bluez (hcid) needs to
> > register to the local dbus.
> 
> the bluez-utils depends on a working D-Bus system bus. It has no
> dependency on X or anything else (besides the Bluetooth library). So if
> it pulls in X related stuff then this is a fault of D-Bus or its package
> and not a problem within the bluez-utils package.

indeed, my point was that bluez-utils needs the dbus daemon running not just
libdbus (which in turn Recommends the daemon, btw)

> 
> > > This is so ugly...
> > > 
> > > It should be possible to run pand without the X11 burden.
> > > It used to be possible in the past, but not anymore.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if it makes any sense to have bluetooth daemons splitted in its own
> > package. 
> 
> No. All of them will be extended with D-Bus functionality anyway. D-Bus
> is the way to go and people fighting it are on a dead end.

agreed

best wishes,
filippo