about providers shutdown

[Simon McVittie]

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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 at 14:12:26 +0300, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> As a matter of fact there could be NO_AUTO_SHUTDOWN
> option (either compile- or run-time) if that's wanted.

In Telepathy we've found this to be extremely useful for debugging, so
I'd advocate implementing it. All our connection managers disable
automatic shutdown if an environment variable FOO_PERSIST is set (e.g.
telepathy-gabble respects GABBLE_PERSIST).

    Simon
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