Re: Status of bluetooth in Arch, specially bluez package

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2009/9/13 Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx>

> > Looks like the devs are aware of it:
> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-September/013363.html
>
> (Since most of us can't send emails to that list)
>
> I've been keeping my PKGBUILDs on
> http://damjan.softver.org.mk/git/arch-bluetooth/ up to date since
> 2008-12-03. I've also tried to provide meaningful commit messages.
>
> If anyone has been following that tree maybe can comment about it's
> quality, shortcomings, correctness and its up-to-dateness? What would
> you change or improve about it? What more would be required from me so
> that I could be an official maintainer?
>
>
> Now, on the issue of obexd vs obex-data-server. Both are DBus services
> that provide OBEX support for different GUI tools. What I don't
> understand is if:
> 1) do they offer the same functionality
> 2) are they interchangeable
> 3) are the conflicting or can be installed simultaneously
>
> as I can see both have a "Name=org.openobex" in the DBus service file
> (in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/), is this a problem?
>
> What about the GUI tools ... there's blueman, kdebluetooth,
> gnome-bluetooth and bluez-gnome (from the bluez developers too) -
> these are that I know of. Do theese have some requirement on any of
> the obex services?
>
>
>
>
> --
> damjan
>

Kdebluetooth (kbluetooth now) depends of obex-data-server. I think
gnome-bluetooth depends of obexd now.

I think functionality is about the same, but obexd is directly updated by
bluez group

-- 
Ricardo Hernández ( richerVE )
richerve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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