On 7/23/2015 12:49 AM, James Powell wrote:
> First off cool your jets, and trying call me out on knowing the
> internals of an IPC in Userspace I didn't develop is very childish.
>
> I honestly don't care if D-Bus what it does other than be a
> communication and messaging relay between applications and processes,
> as long as it does what it does, and doesn't infringe on anything else.
>
> D-Bus is used and is a requirement for some services and software.
> You're unfortunately not going to have your cake and coffee with
> getting rid of D-Bus. Yes, it's not the greatest design, but it is
> friendly at least to the whole UNIX spectrum.
>
> Devuan's main purpose is getting rid of systemd as a hard dependency
> and allowing user choice in init software, not ripping apart every
> project to cater to ever niche and fundamentalist out there preaching
> what they feel is FOSS, and also to not start a witch hunt on software
> projects.
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Well said, James! =) In saying so I am not being critical of Miro.
Devuan needs a clear purpose.