David Faure wrote On 26-05-2006 19:02:
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>>> That does answer the question, though: is it a feature we should push for 
>>> in D-BUS or should we simply mandate that the daemon be running in all 
>>> circumstances?
>> The latter, distros should take care of that in init scripts.
> 
> Which distro are we talking about, when thinking about Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows,
> for example? This isn't about Linux only; we need a dbus server everywhere.
> Isn't the best way to ensure that we get one, to start one when needed?
> Of course on linux we can expect that distros will launch a dbus server before kde,
> but a fallback solution is very much necessary for all the other cases.
> 

Windows can do services so do MacOSX I think and so do any sane 
operating system. But it can't hurt to be double sure, though seems 
unnecessary to me.

/ismail