Arvid Picciani wrote:
Allan McRae wrote:
Can you actually point out what is broken with dbus? That would
actually clarify why you want it removed from cups, because as I
commented in that bug report, the only advantage I see there is saving
4Mb of deps off your system.
I'm aware that minimalism is not a valid argument.
My point was, that adding specific features for supporting a corner case
for a specific subset of users, is a way worse argument.
And blindly not enabling it for a specific subset is also stupid. In
fact, the logical choice would be to supply a package that the minimal
number of people need to recompile, if only to minimize user bitching.
While I am at it, lets see why your arguements just grepping for
"enable|disable" etc are idiotic. Take the gcc PKGBUILD:
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,ada
--enable-shared
--enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-threads=posix
--enable-clocale=gnu
--disable-libstdcxx-pch
etc... Should I revert them to the "default" values. No. How many of
the other flags counted by your grep are needed?
So far you opinion means nothing to me as it is only a rant with very
little backing in terms of information.
I have not provided details on dbus, because it is irrelevant to the
argument. It is undeniable that my most pressing concern is removing
dbus where the arch way argument holds (i will NOT post bug reports that
remove dbus from packages where it is upstream default), however this
does in no way affect the validity of my points.
I personally think your mis-reading the "Arch Way". We do not patch to
add features that are not supported upstream but I have never seen
anything mentioned about using minimal configure flags.
If you care anyway: dbus does crash frequently and some software that
has been configured with it, dies ungracefully, leaving the system dead.
Additionally hal is using 100% cpu on my system.
So you filed bug reports about this? Or just bitched? Or is this only
occurring on your system where you maintain a 50% fork and not being
noticed by others?
Allan
