Hi. On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 07:36:21AM +0200, john doe wrote: > > dbus is not mandatory and is redundant for typical server software. > > If you don't need it - just uninstall it. Simple as that. > > okay, dbus is only required when a DE (Gnome,Mate, ...) is present. > If I'm correct, and given the fact that I don't use a DE, I could look > at safely remove it?
Yup. > In other words, why is dbus a dependency when no DE is installed or what > are the corner cases when dbus is needed without a DE. dbus is an optional dependency to systemd. The reasons of such dependency are: 1) libpam-systemd, loginctl and friends. Useful for a workstation, useless for a server. 2) Privilege escalation of systemctl, which is hardwired to PolicyKit. Same as above. Reco
