On Wednesday 29 July 2009 14:02:01 Ladislav Slezak wrote:
Andreas Jaeger wrote: [...]
This makes updating or compiling the interpreter more complicated and the DBus service is always installed (even when not needed) which is bad from security point of view.
Um, I meant the YaST DBus service, not DBus itself.
Ah, thanks now I understand.
Do we really have situations where a system is usable without DBus? At least for openSUSE I'm not aware of a working system without DBus - do you?
The YaST DBus service runs as root, so it should be installed only when really needed...
I agree this change makes sense, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126