On 2015-04-20 16:26, George Spelvin wrote:
>> It's used everywhere, on servers,
>> embedded systems, desktops, you name it.  All languages have bindings
>> for it, and it's the underpinning of a modern Linux stack.
>
> Since when?  D-bus is some GUI depoendency.  On my console-only servers, it's
> not needed, and not installed:
>
> # dpkg-query -s libdbus-1-3 dbus
> dpkg-query: package 'libdbus-1-3' is not installed and no information is available
> dpkg-query: package 'dbus' is not installed and no information is available
> # dpkg-query -l \*dbus\*
> dpkg-query: no packages found matching *dbus*

Same here, but I use Gentoo, so it's easy to avoid stuff you don't want ;)
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> Richard Weinberger wrote:
> And no systemd.  Udev actually does something useful, so I have it on my
> desktop, but I have machines with a static /dev instead.
Likewise, I get by just fine with OpenRC, eudev, and Monit, the 
combination of which provides all the functionality of SystemD that I 
actually care about.