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Aan: Steve Litt
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Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] sans-dbus: was Will there be a MirDevuan "WTF"?
Alsa uses dbus, since when?
On Jul 23, 2015 7:12 PM, "Steve Litt" <slitt@???> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:39:05 +0200
> Michael Bütow <mbutow@???> wrote:
>
>
> > I am sure if someone wants to expend the energy to get rid of D-Bus
> > related software in Devuan, they can set up their own spin of it.
>
> For those of you who don't want dbus, my experience tells me that
> getting rid of it would involve something like the following:
>
> * Use something like fvwm, Openbox or LXDE that makes minimal or no use
> of dbus.
>
> * Don't use NetworkManager. I don't remember whether Wicd uses dbus or
> not. If Wicd uses dbus, just do a combination of iwlist scanning and
> wpa_supplicant to "dial in" Wifi.
>
> Put a command into your init system that kills the dbus started in your
> initramfs. I personally wouldn't recommend tampering with your
> initramfs itself.
>
> In your init system, get rid of commands that start or modify a running
> dbus.
>
> Get rid of Pulseaudio (obviously, and not just to get away from dbus),
> get rid of ALSA to get away from dbus, and use OSS with snd_mixer_oss
> and rexima.
>
> You might have to tell several of your GUI programs not to do
> notifications, because they notify to dbus without the option to notify
> other ways.
>
> It's probably not going to be that difficult for the average Devuan
> user to get rid of dbus if s/he wants to.
>
>
> SteveT
>
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