Am Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:35:59 +0100 schrieb Arvid Picciani <aep@xxxxxxxx>: > Heiko Baums wrote: > > > There is a second option regarding your dbus/wpa_supplicant example. > > Why not file a bug report/feature request to upstream of > > networkmanager to remove dbus from it? Of course you need to file > > this bug report/feature request to upstream of every package which > > depends on dbus. As soon as dbus is removed from every package or > > made optional at runtime then you could reopen this bug > > report/feature request to Arch again. Otherwise it's better to keep > > the optional dbus support in wpa_supplicant. > > > > This is a VERY good point. I shall do that. But I doubt that you will have much success. Maybe you should read and think about dbus and it's intention before you file such bug reports/feature requests. As far as I understand it brings features like KDE's dcop to other software, if it's not replacing dcop. Heiko