Re: No way to advertise an interface?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:27:21 +0200, Anders Feder wrote:

> For clients to be able to discover services that implement the
> interface, the MPRIS specification requires each media player
> to request a unique bus name which begins with the prefix
> "org.mpris.MediaPlayer2".
>
> ...
> 
> This to me seems like bad practice: The whole purpose of interface
> namespaces is to prevent naming collisions.

Yet you were talking above about bus names, not interface names.
Multiple bus peers can implement the same interface, why not?
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