Am 14.08.2014 14:57, schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 14.08.2014 14:30, schrieb Paul Wise: >> On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 14:15 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> >>> fwiw, we are using "User: >>> pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org" since a while now. >> >> Ah, there are still some bugs with the old user, sorry. BTW archived >> bugs can now have their usertags altered so that could be fixed. >> >>> Hm, it seems dnsmasq requires dbus in any case, even when running under >>> sysvinit or upstart. So I don't understand the alternative dependency >>> you suggest. Afaics, dnsmasq should simply add a Depends on dbus? >> >> As far as I can tell, dnsmasq doesn't need dbus under sysvinit, not sure >> about upstart though. > > Hm, right. It seems so use --enable-dbus when being run under systemd. > > You've proposed: Depends: dbus | sysvinit-core | upstart > > But even with sysvinit-core installed, one can boot using the > init=/bin/systemd command line. > So maybe a simple: Recommend: dbus is better? > > I'm also inclined to just make systemd depend or at least recommend > dbus, seeing [1] > > Michael > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758111 >
After some more discussion on #debian-systemd, we decided to make systemd recommend dbus. After all, when unprivileged users use systemctl, a dbus system bus is required and apparently we also need it for [1] -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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