Configure suggests that lince can be built without dbus support. Website states that libnotify and dbus support are optional. Even source code seems to have lot of #ifdef DBUS parts. But when dbus is not present, lince fails to build (after successful configure)
lince-1.2 # ./configure --help | grep dbus
--with-dbus dbus support [default=check]
When libnotify/dbus is present on the system and --with-dbus=0 is passed to configure the build fails because of misplaced ifdef/ifndef. I could file another bugreport but first question is: Does lince still support functioning without dbus/libnotify or is the configure option deprecated and website outdated? Libnotify seems to have moved to non-optional requirements (because without libnotify even configure fails). And since libnotify has dbus as a dependency...
Last lines from build when dbus is not present on the system:
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -g -O2 -o lince BaseTab.o ClientsInfoNoteBookTab.o FilesInfoNoteBookTab.o GeneralInfoNoteBookTab.o GuiSetupManager.o InfoNoteBook.o LoadTorrentDialog.o LogTab.o main.o MainWindow.o MakeTorrent.o MenuBar.o NoteBookManager.o Notifications.o OptionsInfoNoteBookTab.o OptionsTab.o OptionsWindows.o PiecesInfoNoteBookTab.o StatisticsTab.o StatusBar.o TorrentInfoTab.o TorrentsTab.o TorrentsWindow.o Utils.o XMLReader.o XMLWriter.o GraphStatsTab.o DataStatsTab.o SystemTray.o EditTrackersDialog.o SearchTab.o LoadOneTorrentDialog.o SearchTabResults.o -pthread -lgtkmm-2.4 -latkmm-1.6 -lgdkmm-2.4 -lgiomm-2.4 -lpangomm-1.4 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lglibmm-2.4 -lcairomm-1.0 -lsigc-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lxml2 -lcairomm-1.0 -lcairo -lsigc-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -L../lib -llince-1
libtool: link: g++ -g -O2 -o .libs/lince BaseTab.o ClientsInfoNoteBookTab.o FilesInfoNoteBookTab.o GeneralInfoNoteBookTab.o GuiSetupManager.o InfoNoteBook.o LoadTorrentDialog.o LogTab.o main.o MainWindow.o MakeTorrent.o MenuBar.o NoteBookManager.o Notifications.o OptionsInfoNoteBookTab.o OptionsTab.o OptionsWindows.o PiecesInfoNoteBookTab.o StatisticsTab.o StatusBar.o TorrentInfoTab.o TorrentsTab.o TorrentsWindow.o Utils.o XMLReader.o XMLWriter.o GraphStatsTab.o DataStatsTab.o SystemTray.o EditTrackersDialog.o SearchTab.o LoadOneTorrentDialog.o SearchTabResults.o -pthread /usr/lib64/libgtkmm-2.4.so /usr/lib64/libatkmm-1.6.so /usr/lib64/libgdkmm-2.4.so /usr/lib64/libgiomm-2.4.so /usr/lib64/libpangomm-1.4.so /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libglibmm-2.4.so /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libpangoft2-1.0.so /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.so /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so -lrt /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libxml2.so /usr/lib64/libcairomm-1.0.so /usr/lib64/libcairo.so /usr/lib64/libsigc-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so -L/tmp/lince-1.2/lib /tmp/lince-1.2/lib/.libs/liblince-1.so -pthread
Notifications.o: In function `Notifications::notifyMessage(std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&)':
/tmp/lince-1.2/src/Notifications.cc:92: undefined reference to `notify_notification_new_with_status_icon'
/tmp/lince-1.2/src/Notifications.cc:100: undefined reference to `notify_notification_set_timeout'
/tmp/lince-1.2/src/Notifications.cc:102: undefined reference to `notify_notification_show'
/tmp/lince-1.2/src/Notifications.cc:96: undefined reference to `notify_notification_new'
/tmp/lince-1.2/src/Notifications.cc:97: undefined reference to `notify_notification_set_icon_from_pixbuf'
Notifications.o: In function `Notifications':
/tmp/lince-1.2/src/Notifications.cc:48: undefined reference to `notify_init'
/tmp/lince-1.2/src/Notifications.cc:48: undefined reference to `notify_init'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [lince] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/lince-1.2/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/lince-1.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Libnotify is required and has always been that way but nobody noticed about the dependencies. That should be changed. The main problem is that I am the only developer and right now I don't have a lot of free time.