[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] dbus: split dbus-launch out into its own package (again)

Koen Kooi koen.kooi at linaro.org
Fri Apr 4 09:25:15 UTC 2014


On 04/04/2014 11:21 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 4 April 2014 09:53, Koen Kooi <koen.kooi at linaro.org> wrote:
>> When installing 'dbus-1' it will drag in X11 libs due to ${bindir}/dbus-launch being in ${PN}. Move it to a seperate package to be able to generate a small filesystem (e.g. initrd) without X11 libs without needed a seperate DISTRO.conf.
>
> What's the concrete requirement for this?  Presumably an initrd that
> is starting a system bus but that doesn't also need dbus-launch?\

Correct, an initrd using systemd as /sbin/init is what I want here. I 
don't want to change DISTRO_FEATURES just for building an initrd.

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