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Dbus doesn't have anything to do with systemd FYI. It's a communication bus for processes to talk to each other through structured RPC messages.

• amelius 3y ago
  From the article: > udev and dbus are forced dependencies.
  • qbasic_forever 3y ago
    Yes systemd can use dbus, but plenty of non-systemd systems use and used dbus.
  • zh3 3y ago
    Not true (although maybe in the systemd world?). udev just populates /dev dynamically (rather than having to create all the /dev/ entries manually/via scripts). Even udev is optional (upon upon a time, adding a new device involved knowing the right 'mknod' invocation in order to be able to connect to it - udev sort-of solves that).
  • SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
    Dbus isn't a systemd project any more than a libc is a systemd project. Systemd just requires it as a dependency. It's a freedesktop project.
    • amelius 3y ago
      It's from the same microservices ecosystem, and it was mentioned in the article. That's why I brought it up.