Hello folks,

Good news on the logind front! I got the pre-alpha to play nicely with LoginKit 
instead of logind.

http://i.imgur.com/1PTI6L5.png

LoginKit (https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/loginkit) is an 
attempt to develop a shim that provides the parts of logind and libsystemd 
required to get some packages with a hard dependency on systemd to work without 
it.

Some packages (especially stuff like LightDM and GDM) depends on logind, but 
don't need the rest of systemd. We (and other distros, probably) definitely 
want major DEs and DMs to work without it, to preserve the user's freedom of 
choice. Therefore, LoginKit is not a complete systemd replacement, just a 
replacement for logind and some parts of libsystemd (libsystemd-login, 
libsystemd-journal and libsystemd-daemon).

It's not perfect and the only distro it works on (since ~20 mins ago :D) is 
Devuan (surprise, isn't it?). It allows us to kick logind (the last piece of 
systemd) from the stock ISO. So far, I don't see any impact on user experience, 
which is good.

There's a big pile of issues with LoginKit, with the most important being 
fixing all issues found during code review conducted by the folks at #devuan. 
It will take some time until this code matures, but knowing it works on the 
pre-alpha is pretty comforting :)

Keep up the good work!

Dima

-- 
Dima Krasner, dimakrasner.com

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