Steve,
I understand you don't like systemd (I'm not a fan of llenart either) But...
DBus is a FDO (Freedesktop.org) specification which has been around for a long time. Attacking it because it's being used by systemd is rather annoying because it attacks the heart of cross-desktop collaboration. Making KDE, Gnome, Unity and the rest play well together. If were were to be biased against DBus then what's next; Remove XDG support? stop shipping .desktop files? No, we must continue to support properly specified and collaborative specifications from the freedesktop.org community and as developers support the notion that we can work on some problems outside of desktop fiefdoms to provide a better Linux Desktop platform for everyone.
Inkscape doesn't depend on systemd, and dbus doesn't depend on systemd. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/dbus/ so it should be no problem to install dbus. Without it, you're not going to have much of a computer (certainly not a desktop computer).
But dbus support can be compiled out of inkscape because dbus support on windows in the early days was pretty poor. I believe it's better now.
Martin,
On 17 October 2014 14:07, Steve Litt <slitt@...2357...> wrote:
Hi all,
On Debian Wheezy, a look at dependencies indicates that Inscape depends on dbus, via libgnomevfs2-0 and some other dependency routes. Modern dbus has been co-opted by systemd, which I, and a lot of other people, are refusing to put on their computers.
What would it take to get rid of all direct and indirect dependencies on systemd?
Thanks,
SteveT
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