Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Wed Apr 15 2015 - 02:54:22 EST


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We had been there before. To paraphrase another... meticulously honorable
>> person, "if you didn't want something relied upon, why have you put it into the
>> kernel?" Said person is on the record as having no problem whatsoever with
>> adding dependencies to the bottom of userland stack.
>
> It appears that, if kdbus is merged, upstream udev may end up requiring it:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html

Why so surprised?
kdbus will be a major hard-dependency for every non-trivial userland.
Like cgroups...

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Thanks,
//richard
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