[packagekit] DBus Requirement

[Matthias Clasen]

On Jan 11, 2008 8:45 AM, Thomas Wood <thomas at openedhand.com> wrote:
>
> I did a quick check over the git logs, but I couldn't see any indication
> on why PackageKit requires a development version of DBus (i.e. 1.1.x).
>
> Is there any bugs or missing features which mean it can't use 1.0.2?
>

packagekitd gets started via system bus activation, which is not
available in dbus 1.0.
If you want to use PackageKit with 1.0, you'd have to start the daemon manually.