On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 08:04:33PM +0800, Kevin Buckley wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 09:45, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > With t-bird 78 the option --disable-dbus is still accepted, but it
> > doesn't do anything useful and breaks the build.
>
> Surely that is one to bounce off the T-bird developers.
>
Yeah, now raised as #1655345
> Seems hard to believe that you now need DBus to build an email client,
> albeit a GUI one.
>
DBus is needed for startx in both the systemd and sysvinit books
(for sysvinit, needed for elogind), unless you run X as suid.
But the switch is for dbus-glib.
> Sure, if you want lots of bells and whistles - perhaps because you are
> used to getting surface mail from a real whistling postman who always
> rings twice? - in your email client, then maybe.
>
> I am clearly getting too old for all these dependencies: it used to be
> so simple.
Indeed. I've archived a lot of my scripts for things which are
still in BLFS (most of gnome, kde, lx*, sundry applications) because
I cannot keep up to date with the changes. Even for what remains,
keeping my scripts up to date takes a long time because everything
now releases so often.
ĸen
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