JUjude-·Mar 13, 2021
I see that you didn't take me up on my challenge to prove that dbus does anything we couldn't easily do with bread-and-butter POSIX IPC. Just regurgitating something I could have just read on the dbus homepage isn't fooling anyone.
Look, I have very strong opinions on what software I consider worth running on my computer, because I've been doing this for a long, long time. I also have very strong opinions on how to go about solving the problems that dbus, udev, systemd, logind, PulseAudo, and the rest of the fd.o middleware purport to solve. I also happen to strongly disagree with how they go about doing it. But, please don't misconstrue this as me believing that their authors don't have a right to create whatever software they see fit. I put my money where my mouth is on this and write code to do the things I want if I can't bear to
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use the code they publish -- in fact, I have my own binary-compatible udev replacement waiting on stand-by but ready-to-go in case udev comes to hard-depend on systemd [1].
I normally don't share my opinions publicly like this because it causes people like yourself to crawl out of the woodwork and throw well-meaning but unsolicited advice and github links at me to wrappers and adapters for projects that depend on the very software and the very architectural paradigms I'm trying to avoid. When I try to explain this is not what I asked for, it falls on deaf ears. It's a supremely annoying, frustrating experience.
I don't know if you remember, but the only thing I was trying to find out in this entire comment thread is whether or not Wayland solves a problem that was truly impossible to solve with an X extension. I've already got my answer: no, it does not. So, I think I'm done here.
[1] https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev