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Subject: Re: Package emacs-x11 depends on package dbus-x11, but fails to declare this
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From: Jon TURNEY <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 15:35:28 +0100
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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.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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