Loadable security modules for D-Bus

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 10.01.12 10:16, John Johansen (john.johansen at canonical.com) wrote:

> However modularization, where the the code lives as part of the project
> and is tied to a specific build, like kernel modules, might be, at least
> from a distro packaging pov. Splitting the packaging of D-Bus into a base
> package and a package for each security module to break up dependencies is
> more appealing than, creating separate D-Bus packages to support different
> security solutions. Of course, there are other considerations that might
> not make it the correct solution for D-Bus.

Yeah, I think the clear answer here is: this must be upstream. The API
of D-Bus is huge and baroque as it is, increasing the standardized API
surface even further by adding a plug-in interface would be crazy.

Lennart

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