On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:26:48 -0500
Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:

> I have been running Debian Sid on a laptop with a purged systemd for
> quite a few months. Maybe when I now ran # aptitude update or
> safe-upgrade for the first time after

[snip]

> Systemd is not on the system, so where did systemd-logind come from?
> How can I block it and recover a usable virtual desktop for user?

I'm not a package manager whisperer so I can't answer your question.
But what would happen if you simply backed up the laptop's data and
installed a clean Devuan on it? I'd imagine Devuan would be much more
capable of remaining systemd-free than would any Debian, especially Sid.

If your reason for Sid is you need new apps, you might consider a
rolling release like Funtoo, Gentoo, Void, Spark (sans-systemd Arch),
Manjaro-OpenRC and the like. I'm running Void right now, and check out
my apps:

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[slitt@mydesk ~]$ uname -a
Linux mydesk 4.3.3_2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 23 07:55:09 UTC 2015 x86_64
GNU/Linux
[slitt@mydesk ~]$ firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 43.0.4
[slitt@mydesk ~]$
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SteveT

Steve Litt
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