Hate to continually harp on dbus here, but this is really beginning to irritate me. I generally have gone with Seamonkey 2.0 alpha as my main browser due to my increasing disgust with the bloat and behind-the-scenes activity (not to mention the hideous Awesomebar — if I wanted to search my History, I’d open up my History and search it), but apparently the builds all come with dbus as a dependency. It was tolerated on Ubuntu and systems that forced the hideous poison onto me, but now that I’m running a dbus-less system, it has become an issue.
Generally, thanks to a lack of interest in taking the time to compile the hideously bloated Firefox and Seamonkey, I’ll just download the binaries, and even so in Gentoo. I currently have the -bin version of Firefox 3.0.4 installed, which does not have that hideous dbus dependency. The ebuilds do not have Seamonkey alphas available, so getting them means a manual install (as I have before in Ubuntu) from a download. But now that the Seamonkey binary has a need for dbus, I had to try compiling the thing from scratch — and failed due to some sort of problem with the build (not sure if it was their end or mine). My fear is that Firefox 3.1 will suffer the same fate on its release, but at least Gentoo will likely provide a tested ebuild to allow a pain-free compile without dbus.
It’s really become a pain now. My anti-dbus campaign has reached new levels of frustration and fist-shaking at those responsible for this abomination.
As an aside, I’d like to praise WordPress for its revamp of the Dashboard (administration section for each blog). It looks very clean, and I like it. Thank you for continuing to improve the best blogging software out there and providing us with free space to write.
