New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/27047#issuecomment-741825993 Comment: Making `snapper` depend on `dbus` sounds reasonable to me. Could you open a PR for it? Having documentation in the install message is a bit complicated, though. Few people read them, and accessing them isn't something most people remember how to do, so if they miss it during installation they are unlikely to ever read them. Void doesn't have dbus enabled by default and leaves that as something the user can choose to enable or not. Therefore, it's expected that a fatal error about dbus would prompt the user to try and enable the service. Information about dbus is covered in https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/session-management.html