> I don't see how that makes the package as a whole unusable, but anyway.
> I'll leave that up to Tollef.
Point taken. (I thought it might be rather off-putting to users to see graphics break in a quite drastic way.)
> ..
>>
>> Versions of packages systemd recommends:>
>> pn libpam-systemd <none>
>>
...
>libpam-systemd is a Recommends, so installed by default. You should
>trust your package maintainers, unless you know what you are doing.
I do. Blindly. Too much so perhaps.
>trust your package maintainers, unless you know what you are doing.
I do. Blindly. Too much so perhaps.
Turns out this is a classical misunderstanding -- I understood that I _must not_ install _any_ version of libpam-systemd. Nevertheless I should have tried regardless.
Many thanks for sorting this out for me on a Sunday!