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#1 Re: Freedom Hacks » UDisks2: Security Considerations » 2026-02-14 14:13:05

And you propose just answering "true" every time? What could possibly go wrong? roll

No.  That was ironic.  On a second thought: If you run software that
initiates whatever you regard a system thrashing operation after
receiving nothing but a return value of zero, it might better be thrashed.

#2 Re: Freedom Hacks » UDisks2: Security Considerations » 2026-02-14 13:57:32

Here's an old discussion on installing devuan without dbus. Most of it still applies.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2158

Interesting thread, thank you.

#3 Re: Freedom Hacks » UDisks2: Security Considerations » 2026-02-14 11:21:15

Xorg doesn't use dbus

No, but it asks for it every second and fills up the log with cannot connect.

Uhh, so why not just do that then, rather than "quarrelling"? It's not rocket science.

This was only the core of the problem.  There is a configuration
option to disable dbus, it's off by default and you need to write
a Xorg.conf.  The automatism is broken and will not be fixed, because
"you don't need an Xorg conf, Xorg configures itself".  I forgot how to
write a Xorg.conf manually because I haven't done in 15 years, so I
asked how, then I got the answer: use -configure.

FFS, just compile the things without dbus, then they won't try to use it to begin with and "somebody" won't need to do anything.

I understand that this is the gentoo-aproach and you like that
system.  But I did choose to use devuan.

Actually I didn't ask this in the first place.  Brocashelm did, and I
made a suggestion.

And regarding the "quotemarks".  Yes.  Probably this somebody will
be me. 

Wasn't the title of this subforum "freedom hacks?"   I am sick of
software I have to recompile everytime a new version is out,
because someone decided I now need to use pipewire.  Oh wait.
Somebody made a preload-library and now I still can use alsa.

There are dbus alternatives in the wild, but none of them have any real adoption.

Great.  I don't want one.  I want it switched off.  There are other
ways to do whatever it's good for, most likely /bin/true.

#4 Other Issues » OpenSCAD » 2026-02-14 10:15:58

brgs
Replies: 1

Hi,

I can't find it in the manual and don't know where to look:

How do I change the filemanager openSCAD uses as an
open-file-dialog?

--brgs

#5 Re: Freedom Hacks » UDisks2: Security Considerations » 2026-02-14 10:13:04

@greenjeans:

I really don't get what's so funny.  There are a lot of places in
the world where you get in trouble for something on your
computer, perfectly legal three years ago, and the number of
this places is growing.

So it's fine if you are embarassed by porn and not by lack of
credit, but there is already stuff you can only do online that
requires you to type in - for example - your SSN (maybe not it
in the USA, i don't know about them.)

#6 Re: Freedom Hacks » UDisks2: Security Considerations » 2026-02-14 09:58:26

@brocashelm / @laurie_dev1

I got in a quarrel on another forum, when I asked how to shut up
Xorg about no dbus (no way, must recompile, don't do it, nothing will
work).  So I switched it of and since then (2 years or so) still did not find
a single feature I use missing.

IMHO if someone creates a kind of fake-dbus that the libraries can connect
to and do nothing everything will be fine for now.  Maybe a Preload Library
pretending to be libdbus could do the trick.

What does this thing even do?

--brgs

edit: typo

#7 Re: Documentation » HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan » 2026-01-18 12:45:46

There were complaints by the X.org people about Enricos (the developer
behind Xlibre) patches, they claimed it broke stuff.  Are these complaints
for real, is there something obviously not working with Xlibre, or is it just
politics, as in "used bad word" or "makes it difficiult to force
$unwanted_new_shiny_technology onto the user"?

Gr, Brgs

#8 Re: DIY » Android SDK question » 2025-05-10 14:22:02

This is what I expected, too, but synaptic lists several packages
called android-sdk-* and I am a little short on diskspace, so
I try to avoid installing all of them.

I haven't done android stuff in maybe five years; now I found
that compat isn't even needed, possibly it was introduced in
a newer version.

#9 Re: DIY » Android SDK question » 2025-05-10 13:50:39

Now I realize, that the question was wrong:

Appcompat is not installed, and I don't know in which debian
package it hides, or if there exists another way to install it
without using the eclipse / gradle ecosystem.

#10 DIY » Android SDK question » 2025-05-10 11:33:37

brgs
Replies: 4

Hi,

I am not quite shure, if this is the right forum to ask.

I need to put together a quick android-app that depends on
appcompat.  I did install android sdk with synaptics, and now
I don't find out where to find appcompat.  Any hints where to
look?

Thanks a lot
--brgs

#11 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Where do the packages go... when support runs out? » 2023-08-19 10:08:48

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

yes, ascii has been moved. You should update your sources list to these

Thanks alot!

#12 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Where do the packages go... when support runs out? » 2023-08-19 08:56:43

brgs
Replies: 2

Hi all,

I got this old PC sitting in the corner, still running Devuan ASCII.  Now I lost
some packages due to a hd-crash, and surprisingly  support did run out
some time ago.

Is there some kind of archive of old packages?

greettings, brgs

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