> They pushed for Gnome to have a hard dependency on it so that everyone would be _forced_ to use it instead of just letting it be accepted by merits.
We should standardize on the interfaces, avoiding hard dependencies. There is dbus for that.
We should standardize on the interfaces, avoiding hard dependencies. There is dbus for that.
As dbus user, or application, you just need some client library. As an operating system, you also need a daemon running, which is routing the messages among all the clients.
[1] - https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html
I am personally in the camp that doesn't mind that, Linux users should get the best possible software given their system capabilities, not the lowest common denominator one just for the sake of it. (Free)BSD developers are also not looking to make sure their stuff works with Linux, which I think it's a valid approach.
GNOME itself does exist on the BSDs, by the way knocking down the argument of systemd being a hard dependency of GNOME along the way.
If this claim were true it still is beside the point of my comment, that systemd itself has a "Linux only, and we don't care" approach, and dbus for the moment is not that.
> GNOME itself does exist on the BSDs
Yes the ports tree is a wonderful place for those things to sit for those who are interested and for a larger portion to not bother installing them. I don't know how many patches they applied to get it working or what the cost and effect of those patches may be over time.