On 22 July 2013 10:17, Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> Le lundi 22 juillet 2013 à 10:45 +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit :
>> systemd being installed does not mean it will be used as init. The
>> package happens to contain a few tools the GNOME Shell needs, that is
>> all, to the best of my knowledge. It's a harmless dependency if you
>> don't use systemd, one that is only "scary" on paper.
>
> If you don’t use systemd, logind will be non-functional, and you lose
> all features that require the system to know who is logged on what. Such
> as shutting down the system, mounting USB devices, and so on.
>

If packaged right, this is not the case. I am running my machine with
logind and upstart as system & user session init.
Most of upstream packages were modified to correctly check for logind
presence, instead of systemd presence. (Many thanks goes to pitti).

Regards,

Dmitrijs.


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