On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 15:32:11 -0500
Mitt Green <mitt_green@???> wrote:

> Steve Litt wrote:
>
> >I'm not for a moment suggesting Devuan should remove Debian's libdbus
> >dependency. We have bigger fish to fry.
>
> $ apt-cache rdepends libdbus-1-3
> libdbus-1-3
> Reverse Depends:
> (...)
> 436 packages at all on my Unstable

[slitt@mydesk ~]$ xbps-query -RX dbus-libs | wc -l
139
[slitt@mydesk ~]$

Yeah, Devuan, Void or practically anywhere else, at this point trying
to remove dbus is like jousting windmills.

Of course, on good distros, you don't have to actually start dbus :-)

SteveT

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