Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > I would like to point out that this is 'gentoo user' not 'talk about any os' > or 'windows support'. You might be surprised to learn that gentoo is a linux > distribution. So why do you bring windows or apple up?
Because most of those "millions of users" you were refering to are using windows and macos... I met a non-sensical argument with another, as I see it. Gentoo users are hardly millions (although I don't have any figures to back that claim up). > the problems, dbus solves, have been discussed to death already. Maybe you > should read Alan McKinnons mails again. You seem to have missed a lot. Neil > Bothwick's mails are also something you should consider. I have read them all. Again, this is just a matter of opinion; you, Alan and Neil thinks it solves a problem which I don't see. IPC has been working for decades before D-Bus came along it. It just adds another layer (the D-Bus protocol) on top of, for example, unix domain sockets (which is one variant of IPC). For the record I do have D-Bus installed because it's a compile-time requirement for Audacious but I don't run the daemon (Audacious works fine without it). It just sits there taking up space... Which I find annoying. But again this discussion is pointless since the Audacious programmers have introduced this (compilation) dependency. So if I wish to go back to the way it was (before D-Bus) I'd better get hacking! ;-) So let's agree that we disagree on this matter? :-) Best regards Peter K
