Re: Upstart 0.6.3 coming to a rawhide near you

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

James Antill (james fedoraproject org) said: 
> > > Does this mean that running dbus will be required to reboot/shutdown
> > > the system?
> > 
> > No. The init daemon speaks the dbus protocol, and can be communicated
> > with over the system daemon. But it can also be talked to directly.
> 
>  Looking at upstart-0.6.3-3.fc13.src.rpm, the specfile
> includes /sbin/shutdown etc. ... and looking at the tarball those seem
> to come from util/*.c. Which AFAICS require DBus to work.

... which does not *require* the system dbus daemon.

Bill