[RFC] Common activation manager via external manager

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzqohf at 0pointer.de> wrote:

> Hence: I think it is a bad idea to pass this along with the activation
> request. if you really want to allow activation of dbus services without
> having to manually configure them in native configuration files of the
> init system, then at least do it properly: add an API to the bus driver
> to expose all activatable bus services it read with its properties, and
> include change signals and stuff. Given that the list of activatable
> services doesn't change that often simply adding a single property to
> the bus driver whith an array of structs with the service information
> should be enough.

This seems like a pretty baroque way to pacify OS vendors left which
for some unknown reason still try to support separate /usr, but sure.

So if we did that, then we'd still always try to activate through the
external service, and just pass it the bus name, right?