Bug#923198: would it work with elogind?

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2019-02-25 01:20 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:

> Control: tags -1 +patch
>
> [Can't test it right now, perhaps in the evening todorrow.  Noticed
> this bug filed on #-changes]
>
>> xserver-xorg-core has a hard dependency on libpam-systemd.  Violates
>> "Depends: This declares an absolute dependcy...
>
> No, it has only Recommends.  On the other hand, apt handles unwanted
> Recommends in a very nasty way, making it seem the dependency is absolute
> if there's any way the Recommends could possibly become satisfied (such
> as by switching the init to systemd).
>
>> I blasted libpam-systemd off my system and Xorg didn't even blink.
>
> If I recall correctly, logind (such as libpam-systemd) is needed if you run
> X not as root.  The vast majority of us uses gdm3/lightdm/sddm/wdm/xdm/...
> which happen to run as root, which makes the dependency indeed wrong even
> for Recommends.

I think you are mistaken here, with gdm3 (the default display manager)
the X server does _not_ run as root by default.

> But, instead of removing, you can change:
>     Recommends: libpam-systemd
> to
>     Recommends: default-logind | logind
>
> which works nicely with elogind.

Makes sense.  Can you confirm that rootless X works with elogind?
Use gdm3 as display manager, or startx and no display manager.

Cheers,
       Sven