On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 09:57:42 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running devuan jessie. I wanted to try 'apt-get build-dep vlc'.
> For that I need to put the source URIs in /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> These are not listed on devuan.org. Are they available?

Yes. Simply duplicate the lines you have and replace deb by deb-src.

> My immediate interest is to compile vlc without --enable-dbus.

VLC does not depend on dbus, why bother?
Note: It does depend on libdbus, though, which should be mostly
harmless. A case similar to packages depending on libsystemd0.

> Devuan is a flavor of debian without systemd. I'm curious
> what would be needed to build a hierarchy of packages that
> don't require dbus (which IMHO is heavy weight, a security risk,
> and is something I don't need.) Would that have to be a whole new
> distribution?

I can only speculate, but probably yes. A lot of Stuff™ depends
on dbus these days, so I imagine it would be even harder to create
a dbus-free Devuan flavor than just a systemd-free one.

Regards
Urban