[PATCH 0/5] Support service activation through Upstart

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Scott James Remnant
<scott at netsplit.com> wrote:
> These patches add support for service activation through Upstart.

What do you guys think about having DBus just try every activation
request through init first?  In other words, we send a message like:

org.freedesktop.Init.TryToActivateDesktopFile
string:/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/foo.desktop

and init replies "yes", "no", "error".   Actually even better, init
just always handles launching a task like this, and if there isn't a
corresponding native item (upstart job, unit file, whatever), init
just make one up.

It's not functionally different from dbus launching it really.