Steve Litt wrote:
> If anyone's running any kind of GUI Linux system without dbus, tell us
> about it.

On my system,

apt-get -s remove dbus

The following packages will be REMOVED:
    

    bluetooth 
    bluez 
    colord 
    consolekit 
    dbus 
    dbus-x11 
    exo-utils 
    gconf2 
    gcr 
    gksu 
    hplip 
    inkscape
    libatk-bridge2.0-dev 
    libatspi2.0-dev 
    libclutter-1.0-dev 
    libclutter-gtk-1.0-dev 
    libexo-1-0 
    libgksu2-0
    libgnomevfs2-0 
    libgnomevfs2-common 
    libgtk-3-dev 
    libxfce4ui-1-0 
    libxfconf-0-2 
    liferea 
    policykit-1
    printer-driver-postscript-hp 
    spacefm 
    udisks 
    upower 
    wicd 
    wicd-curses 
    wicd-daemon 
    wicd-gtk 
    xfconf 
    xfwm4
    xfwm4-themes

I would be glad to use dbus-free software. I doubt there is
much user concern. IIUC dbus is a framework for remote procedure
calls (RPC) in the lineage including CORBA, bonobo and others.

That it is ambitious is not in itself a concern. I doubt
someone would bother to disengle them. Compiling dbus,
something I tried a few times, impresses one with the
enormous size of the project.

--
Joel Roth