Neither avahi or dbus are really required to run a distro. If you want to remove them in devuan it may require rebuilding of packages to keep the dependencies out in some cases, for slackware or other distros that don't have a concept of dependencies you can just remove them. It's worth noting that some programs do explicitly rely on dbus (like thunar-volman) so removing it will mean some compromises.

Cheers,

chillfan

On Thursday, June 16, 2016 8:38 AM, emninger@??? wrote:
> Am Thu, 16 Jun 2016 06:28:16 +0000
> schrieb Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???>:
>
>> avahi -> die die die
>
> In the slackware world i learned, that avahi was not needed and could
> be removed (respectively not installed at all) without any problem. And
> indeed it was so for me, i did not notice any loss in confort ... (in
> some way compareable to pulseaudio as an overlay over alsa).
>
> Someone here (Jaromil?) mentioned that also dbus could be removed. So
> my question: Is that correct? (In manjaro-openrc i saw, they make a
> lot of use of dbus though, eg. using it as a launcher for pcmanfm -d)
>
> Thanks for your patience.
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