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Author: Jaromil
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Request for Removal of slim package from Devuan
On Wed, 25 May 2016, Dima Krasner wrote:

>    slim is far from perfect, that's true. However, "it works" and
>    LightDM can use both ConsoleKit and logind in the version
>    packaged in Jessie, but prefers logind. Other DMs have a hard
>    dependency on logind, or will in the future. We cannot rely on
>    LightDM, in the long term.  Currently, I don't see a longterm
>    solution to this problem, other than maintaining slim or
>    switching to MDM.


ok. well MDM seems very good and Clement was with us back in the early
days, for sure he is not a systemd fanatic, I doubt he will put an
hard dependency on it.

worth trying and perhaps maintaining https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm


ciao