I have some info about d-bus in devuan on the wiki pages that might be worth a look.

https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home

Cheers,

chillfan

On Thursday, June 16, 2016 9:27 AM, dev1fanboy <devuanfanboy@???> wrote:
> 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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