Should bluez really depend on gnome-bluetooth? I don't know the internals, but it does seem counter-intuitive. Just asking. Also: Removing bluez leads to removing gnome-bluetooth. And removing gnome-bluetooth leads to removing bluez!
I was wondering the same thing. Neither should bluez depend on or require gnome-bluetooth nor should gnome-bluetooth depend or require bluez. The communications between bluez and gnome-bluetooth happens via D-Bus and thus the existence of org.bluez (provided by bluetoothd from bluez) is a runtime dependency. It should be possible to de-install bluez package without de-installing gnome-shell. The trigger for starting bluetoothd should not be gnome-shell or gnome-bluetooth. It should be triggered by udev and bluetooth.target unit.
bluez-4.101-6.fc18.x86_64 actually depends on: dependency: dbus-bluez-pin-helper provider: gnome-bluetooth.x86_64 1:3.6.1-2.fc18 provider: blueman.x86_64 1.23-5.fc18 provider: bluedevil.x86_64 1.3-1.fc18 provider: bluedevil.i686 1.3-1.fc18
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Created attachment 845734 [details] bluetooth
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