On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:53 AM, Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> Quoting Joel Roth (joelz@???):
> > On my system,
> >
> > apt-get -s remove dbus
> >
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
>
> And what actually breaks if you use equivs to lie and say it's still
> present?
>

I haven't tested on Devuan but on my Funtoo system, LightDM does not work
unless dbus is started. Note that this is not a package dependency issue.
Dbus is installed, but if it is not running prior to starting LightDM,
LightDM will give me a black screen with a blinking cursor.