its just weird and un-linux-like when things keep popping up out of nowhere without any known reason.
so it was before jessie was "stable," and systemd came in-- suddenly rc.local isnt running at boot. boy was that a lot of fun to find out about. and here we are.
similarly fun, i remove machine-id and atril no longer works. wow, i cant imagine how the pdf reader needs a f***ing uuid for my machine to work.
this is not good stuff. there used to be workarounds that had logic to them, and werent bizarre. even when you didnt know why they worked, you were (correctly) sure there was at least a decent (usually explainable) reason.
ive got tons of dbus-launch processes! i dont know why, ive got a week of uptime on this laptop (rare these days, trying out my own isos) and here they are, all of a sudden. scroogle tells me that init is calling them. very cool-- why?
if i go to read about this crap, it wants me to learn the entire subsystem, rather than just tell me what-the-f*** its for.
dbus-launch obviously launches stuff blah blah blah dbus-- a system for passing messages between--
nevermind that, why do i have all these processes?
blah blah blah init,
blah blah blah system messages,
blah blah blah this is too much like having systemd installed.
its a lot of opaque horsesh** for no given reason.
but if anyone has a guess why after 8 days of not having lots of dbus-launch processes open, now there are (actually i closed them, to find out if they would even close) id love to hear about it. whatever it is, it seems to be "launching" things with small numbers of hexadecimal digits.
hooray, things arent this opaque since ibm bios codes. "keyboard error? no... FFFF:0101" i mean who cares what a keyboard error is, anyway? let them narrow it down through trial and error.
now i do have a way of answering my own question, which is why you dont find me asking this stuff very often:
first, i remove /usr/bin/dbus-launch ...then, i find out what doesnt work. if everything works, i dont need it. if something doesnt work: hey! thats what its for!
in case you didnt notice: this is the year of the linux desktop.
you know it is, because this is the year that everything important bows to that silly f***ing crap instead.