Bug#915407: libpam-systemd: please add a virtual package "logind" to allow alternatives

[Ansgar Burchardt]

On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 16:35 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Use cases, for individual packages: (copied from a mail by smcv):
> 
>     """
>     Packages that need to register their login sessions with logind
>     (gdm3, lightdm, openssh-server):
>     - remove libpam-systemd dependency
>     - add default-logind | logind dependency

Doesn't gdm3 start a gnome-session for the login screen?

It is a bit different from the standard session and only starts some
things (from /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-login.session I
believe), so I'm not sure about this:

>     Packages that rely on running systemd --user units (dbus-user-
> session,
>     gnome-session, gnupg):
>     - unchanged, elogind is not supported here
>     """

This might imply gdm3 might need `systemd --user` as well; not sure.

Have you tried if it works?

Ansgar