On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:34:36 -0700 Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> DBus isn't a problem per se, it just can cause issues, when implemented > >> without thinking about the needs of all users? > > > > Right but it's actually much worse than that. Take mozilla firefox even > > which may or may not have been changed due to me bringing it up on the > > dev-security list. Without dbus in a chroot it would die, the reason > > was handling it's text configuration files, which is obviously > > rediculously pointless and I assume with some confidence, actually quite > > dumb. > > Are you sure about that? I have never seen anything dbus related in > any version of Mozilla or Firefox, aside from one extension that never > really when anywhere.
It does as you can see from the output when running it in a chroot and for atleast one release it would die. (firefox:1515): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-jEHTNI62oh: Connection refused Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2572.57457...@smtp112.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
