IRC meeting

[Rob Ubuntu Linux]

On Nov 27, 2007 1:46 PM, Matthias Urlichs <smurf at smurf.noris.de> wrote:
> Rob Ubuntu Linux:
> > The low-level libdbus reference implementation has no required
> > dependencies; the bus daemon's only *required* dependency is an XML
> > parser (either libxml or expat).
>
> It bears repeating that th XML parser is a dependency of the dbus
> *daemon* _only_.
>
> You can (and should, in case of /sbin/init) use that library to talk
> directly, without brokering through a daemon -- which may not even be
> running yet.

And once you have done that, then surely you want to start the dbus
daemon, to handle usage by other processes in a standard way.

It just sounds lightweight and it does not require a Desktop X
environment, so why should there be objections, based on low power
CPU?