Congratulations Dima! This is wonderful news for the future of Devuan! On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Dima Krasner <d...@dimakrasner.com> wrote:
> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > >
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