[Users] Keeping claws-mail systemd free?

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:30:50 -0700
Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:15:56 -0400,
> Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 
> Steve> I'm trying to keep systemd off my machines to the greatest
> Steve> extent I can. Is there any plan for Claws-Mail with regard to
> Steve> systemd? I see that on Debian Wheezy, Claws-Mail depends on
> Steve> libdbus-glib-1-2, which depends on libdbus-1-3, which depends
> Steve> on multiarch-support.
> 
> Steve> Systemd has co-opted dbus, so I'm concerned. Is there a way to
> Steve> make Claws-Mail's reliance on dbus facilities optional, or to
> Steve> substitute something else for it, or use a separate and
> Steve> distinct executable to tell when mail comes in?
> 
> I think this has already been discussed here.
> 
> The libdbus dep should be harmless, it won't pull in systemd even
> after the transition (this is an educated guess).  I already have
> installed packages that depend on libsystemd, and it is equally
> harmless. Basically, they'll communicate with systemd if it is there,
> and do nothing if not.

Cool!

So I'll see if the Debian version *depends* on systemd, and if so
compile and see if the compile gripes about absense of systemd, and if
so ./configure --disable-systemd.

So I'm covered no matter what. This is great news, and I've already
spread the word to the Debian-User list.

SteveT

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