Re: Emacs insists on starting dbus?

[Michael Albinus]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> writes:

>> Hmm. If this is the reason for the D-Bus autostart, shouldn't it be set
>> impicitely when --without-dbus is applied?
>
> --without-dbus means that Emacs should not provide a dbus-interface
> and not link with dbus, which is doesn't.

It does not link libdbus *explicitly*, when --without-dbus is given.
>  
>> And if not, this should be documented, at least.
>
> It is hard to document everything that external libraries
> do. Gsettings happens to start dbus, it does so regardless of what
> Emacs does.

Maybe we could add a hint in the configure summary, when there is
--without-dbus, but not --without-gsettings and --without-gconf.
Something like

  Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -lgconf?                                 yes
       You might consider to disable Gconf
  Does Emacs use GSettings?                               yes
       You might consider to disable Gsettings

>       Jan D.

Best regards, Michael.