glib20 2.26.1 / dbus dependency

Sat Nov 20 17:46:20 UTC 2010

On 11/20/10 11:57 AM, Jakub Lach wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Why push dbus as required dependency?
> 
> I manually deleted dbus dependency and added
> --disable-dbus (just in case it's respected), 
> it compiled fine.
> 
> Maybe WITHOUT_DBUS= knob could be added?

DBus is now fundamentally required for many glib consumers in the GNOME
space.  The DBus code is interwoven into libgio, so it can't easily be
added as slave port "extra."  If you build glib without DBus you may
surprised that some things just won't work.

Joe

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