On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Work on kdbus is nearing completion (of a first version at least) and > it will soon be submitted upstream. We will also soon have a 'bridge' > in systemd between the old libdbus and kdbus. This bridge will > conflict with the old dbus daemon, but libdbus will still be around > for a long time. > > All of this stuff is very much still under development, and the > details are not clear yet. However, to make it simpler for Arch users > to help out with the testing and development of kdbus and its systemd > counterpart, I'd like to propose the following: > > * split 'dbus' into 'dbus' and 'libdbus' > * make dbus depend on libdbus > * other packages will still depend on dbus, rather than libdbus directly. > > For the regular users, this should have no effect, but for people > building and testing systemd/kdbus it means they can still stick with > our stock libdbus rather than building their own. At some point in the > future, I expect this will be beneficial to all, as we will likely > drop the dbus and just keep libdbus around. > > Thoughts?
Done. -t
