[Discuss] Debian adds another systemd dependency, Busybox drops it

[smallm at SDF.ORG (Mike Small)]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:17:36AM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> Within the past few days, Debian have added another hard dependency on
> systemd in sid. This time it is the Xorg server which is no longer setuid.
> In order to make this work they implemented a hard dependency on
> libpam-systemd along with a bunch of other onerous restrictions. At least
> this time around they also created a legacy dpkg that retains the old
> behavior.

Funny, this was one of the few things that made systemd sound useful
to me. I'm not going to switch to a distro that uses systemd and
pam just to get it, but if I were using Debian already I'd be happy
enough with the change. Other than running OpenBSD with its privilege
separated X, isn't the systemd way the only way to run (part of?)
the X server as a nonprivileged user?

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