[OE-core] [PATCH] dbus: split X11 dependant dbus-launch into its own subpackage

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Wed May 25 22:43:48 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:49 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 02:43 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 22:18 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> This makes dbus usable in non-X enviroments like QT/e
> >>
> >>  From the original commit in OE .dev:
> >>
> >> commit 8e25448fb01b6fa6ea3a86f9327f080cd753dfbc
> >> Author: John Lee<john_lee at openmoko.org>
> >> Date:   Fri Sep 5 11:37:39 2008 +0000
> >>
> >>      dbus: enable x support and put dbus-launch into new package dbus-x11
> >>      * Enable x support only add rdepends to dbus-launch.  Make it a
> >>        seperate package so other packages like dbus does not rdepend on
> >>        libx11.
> >
> > Which pieces of the system use dbus-launch and do we need to add
> > dependencies to them after this change to pull in the dbus-x11 package?
> >
> Richard there is a patch from Khem back on 5/7 that replaces gconf-dbus 
> but did not have all the parts in place, I think this is the first steps 
> to getting the parts in place to beable  to untangle the gconf dbus stuff

I think this is a different issue Koen is addressing:

"This makes dbus usable in non-X enviroments like QT/e"

and is a tangential issue as far as I can see. My comment stands as
images will have dbus-launch missing as far as I can tell as its not an
automatically detected dependency.

Cheers,

Richard






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