Ubuntu
dbus-python package

  1. Bug #893091
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 893091

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In , Thiago Macieira (thiago-kde) wrote :

> (In reply to comment #45)
> > Making dbus depend on Gnome doesn't seem like a good approach for KDE users.
>
> Making dbus-python (a subset of D-Bus) depend on GLib (a library used by GNOME)
> isn't the same thing as making D-Bus depend on GNOME. As a result of the
> main-loop integration, Qt (and hence KDE) on Debian/Ubuntu already depends on
> GLib.

To be clear: D-Bus doesn't depend on Glib either. It's only dbus-python that we're discussing here. Therefore, Qt doesn't depend on Glib -- it's an optional dependency that may be turned off at compile-time and at run-time.