Hi, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> (2015-10-27): > I'd like to see the priority of libpam-systemd bumped from optional to > standard. > The recent changes in xserver-xorg make it possible to run X without > root privileges [1], which is awesome! This requires a proper logind > session though, for which libpam-systemd needs to be installed (and > enabled). While xserver-xorg-core added a Recommends on libpam-systemd, > not everyone has Recommends enable. X is also not the only reason, why > one want libpam-systemd installed. E.g. for SSH logins you also want > proper logind sessions. The only environment where you don't want/need > libpam-systemd is on a buildd or very specialised, minimal systems. > > I think prio:standard would fit that quite well. We also already have > dbus (a dependency of libpam-systemd) already in prio:standard, > libpam-rutime is prio:required. So no additional dependencies would be > necessary. > > I've CCed debian-b...@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org and > pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org . Please CC them on > replies. > > I especially would like to see an ACK from KiBi/debian-boot before the > prio is bumped.
Thanks for the ping. I don't see why that would be an issue on the installer side, but maybe wait a few days to see if someone else has an objection? Mraw, KiBi.
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