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Author: Svante Signell
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To: fsmithred, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Refracta no-dbus experiment
On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 15:34 -0400, fsmithred wrote:
> Refracta no-dbus build (experiment)
>
> The subject of running without dbus comes up from time to time in
> various places. I decided to try it and see how far I could get. I
> started with a debootstrap install of devuan ascii, pinned dbus to a
> priority of -1, and proceeded to make the same changes as I do to
> make Refracta liveisos. Normally, the Refracta isos use xfce, but
> that's not possible without dbus.
>
> I was surprised to see how much did install without dbus. So I
> thought I'd share it. This build uses openbox, lxpanel, lxterminal
> and spacefm. Maybe someone will want to use it. Maybe it will inspire
> someone else to do something better. Feeback is welcome.
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/experimental/refracta9_nodbu
> s_amd64-20180612_0156.iso


This is a really good initiative :) Let's get rid of that dbus bloat!