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#1 2009-01-24 13:04:07
- arnuld
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Do I need dbus and avahi ?
I don't use HAL. I mount my DVD and USB drives manually. I just play videos and do encoding and write DVDs usign wodim or k3b. Do I need dbus and avahi daemons runnning ?
HAL was installed automatically as some dependancy for something I don't rememeber. I don't even use GNOME/KDE, I simply use wmii with rxvt-unicode and firefox.
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#2 2009-01-24 13:06:14
- Allan
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#3 2009-01-24 14:56:21
- arnuld
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Re: Do I need dbus and avahi ?
If you don't use them, then no...
HAL -- NO
DBUS -- I don't know
AVAHI -- I don't know
AVAHI-DNSCOND -- I don't know
.. what do we use DBUS and AVAHi for ?
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#4 2009-01-24 15:24:40
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Re: Do I need dbus and avahi ?
Surely Google/Wikipedia knows that.
M*cr*s*ft: Who needs quality when you have marketing?
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#5 2009-01-24 16:20:26
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Re: Do I need dbus and avahi ?
avahi is being pulled in with CUPS. You may just have to keep that one, or try to compile it out, if you use CUPS.
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#6 2009-01-24 16:53:27
- arnuld
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Re: Do I need dbus and avahi ?
avahi is being pulled in with CUPS. You may just have to keep that one, or try to compile it out, if you use CUPS.
No, I don't have aprinter and no plans for next 2 years of buying one 
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#7 2009-01-24 16:56:12
- arnuld
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Re: Do I need dbus and avahi ?
Surely Google/Wikipedia knows that.
Perhaps I already did ..... 
@ WIkipedia
D-Bus (Desktop Bus) is a simple inter-process communication (IPC) system for software applications to communicate with one another. D-Bus allows programs to register on it for offering services to others. It also offers client programs the possibility to look up which services are available. Programs can also register as waiting for events of the kernel like hot swapping hardware.
Now what the heck does that mean.
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#8 2009-01-24 17:56:31
- dolby
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Re: Do I need dbus and avahi ?
If you use input hotplugging for xorg-server then you need hal which needs dbus.
dbus is alo needed by wpa_supplicant & firefox and many other GUI applications like the gimp etc
i cant seem to find the link dependance on firefox although i could have sworn that it depended on dbus-glib in the past.
since it isnt explicitly disabled in the config im pretty sure firefox uses it http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/f … iew=markup
but i cant be sure as i use the official binary supplied by mozilla, not the archlinux package.
Last edited by dolby (2009-01-24 18:03:29)
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