[LAD] jack2's dbus name

Lennart Poettering mzynq at 0pointer.de
Mon Jun 15 17:34:13 UTC 2009


On Mon, 15.06.09 10:16, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU) wrote:

> > Distributions will certainly enable the D-Bus code in JACK if they
> > ship it. So, I have no problem with depending on a dbus'ified jack for
> > this logic to work. 
> 
> >From a packagers' (for Fedora/Planet CCRMA) point of view the future
> dbus-capable jack should be able to be used without dbus support as well
> as with it _without_ having to recompile it (that is without having to
> repackage it differently). For an example of non-dbus usage, I may want
> to start jack on a remote host where there is no desktop session at the
> moment and thus dbus is not usable. 

No. That use case does not make any sense. The D-Bus session bus is
autospawned if necessary these days.

I personally see no value in dbus-less builds. That's just pointless
conservatism, mostly based on unfounded anti D-Bus FUD. But then
again, I am not really a jack developer, so what I think is mostly
irrelevant.

Lennart

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