Re: dbus-deamon avoiding reboot after upgrade
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
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