On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 15:43 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On 4 May 2010 02:43, Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What's with your comments on GConf, that you use an older version > > because the dependencies of 2.28 scare you? Those dependencies are > > ORBit2, libxml2, dbus-glib, polkit, and gtk+ - a fairly small and > > harmless set of packages... what's scary about them? > > polkit, and *it's* dependencies : not for the first time, you've caught me > out on an oversimplified remark.
What's the problem with that, though? Polkit is just a newer version of PolicyKit, with much the same dependencies. You're running an older version of GConf just to avoid running a newer version of Policy Kit? Not meaning to be difficult, I just don't understand the objection. > > Also, regarding D-Bus, you comment "the last thing I need is for my > > computer to second-guess what I want to do with something I've plugged > > in". Uh, what does D-Bus have to do 'stuff you've plugged in'? It's just > > a service for message passing between processes... it's got nothing to > > do with hardware... > > > Technically true, but is it not there so that a random application can say > "looks like you've plugged in a memory stick - would you like me to help > you use it" ? Only in that some of the hardware management packages use it - it carries messages between a system daemon like HAL, and the desktop that might want to do something in response to a hardware change. Intrinsically, it's just an IPC mechanism. The big desktops use it extensively to allow various desktop services to communicate, in both cases migrating to it from older systems - KDE from their in-house DCOP framework, and Gnome are just about finished getting rid of CORBA. Simon.
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