Which Idiot thought it was a good idea to make systemd a dependency of the Xorg server core binary?
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huh, which distro? are you sure it's a required dependency and also not just libsystemd?
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And it doesn't matter if its systemd or libsystemd, It's a dependency against something being part of the systemd project.
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As I understand it, libsystemd is a shim and therefore relatively harmless. Could be wrong though.
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libsystemd is developed as part of systemd (its sources are in the systemd repository).
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And there is no sane reason whatsoever why the X server should interact with systemd/logind at all.
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The only reason for a X server to interact with logind is for seat management. But that was better be done by containers anyway.
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Would require device namespaces though, but instead of developing that further another userspace kludge is made.