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Re: Package emacs-x11 depends on package dbus-x11, but fails to declare this


On 8/7/2015 10:35 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 04/08/2015 17:29, Ken Brown wrote:
On 8/4/2015 10:29 AM, Rainer Blome wrote:
Package emacs-x11 depends on package dbus-x11 and should declare this,
but apparently does not.

Please change package emacs-x11 so that it declares its dependency on
package dbus-x11.

Details:
When doing a fresh install of Cygwin 64bit, I selected xlaunch,
"emacs-x11" and a few other packages and let the dependency
satisfaction mechanism do its thing.
This resulted in a working X Server

I would say that it didn't result in a working X server in view of the
error message, "D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up".

The documentation on the Cygwin/X home page (http://x.cygwin.com/) says
that you should install the xinit package in order to use the Cygwin X
server.  And xinit depends on dbus-x11.  But not everyone reads the
documentation before installing, so maybe xlaunch should require xinit.

Jon?  Yaakov?

Hmm... not sure about this.

On the one hand, this is really a defect with xlaunch, which doesn't know enough
to do all the things which xinit does (like starting a dbus session bus instance)

On the other hand, just making xlaunch depend on dbus-x11 would solve this problem.

Yes, that would suffice for this particular problem. I was just thinking that someone who installs xlaunch probably assumes that they'll get whatever they need for using Cygwin/X. Since the user's guide (http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html#setup-cygwin-x-installing) describes xinit as required and xlaunch as optional, having xlaunch require xinit seems reasonable to me.

Ken

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