[Bluez-devel] [Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] dbus dependency introduces unwanted X11 dependency

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Bram,

> > the bluez-utils depends on a working D-Bus system bus. It has no
> > dependency on X or anything else (besides the Bluetooth library). So if
> > it pulls in X related stuff then this is a fault of D-Bus or its package
> > and not a problem within the bluez-utils package.
> 
> I'll take this up with the dbus maintainer then.
> 
> I still think that there is no need for X11 client stuff if you
> want to run a PAN daemon. Bluetooth communication has nothing to
> do with graphics devices. The 2.x version of bluez-utils demonstrated
> it can do without.

you still don't understand it. BlueZ is _not_ using any X functionality
in its daemons. We never have and we never will be. Period. However we
use D-Bus as general communication method and that is a hard dependency
now and it won't change in the future. So if you wanna use something
that doesn't use D-Bus then stick to the 2.x releases. There was a
reason why we changed the major version number.

Regards

Marcel