The officially official Devuan Forum!

grunchy

Member

Registered: 2024-01-01

Posts: 45  

Xorg devuan forks

i just did an update and two Xorg packages were included: xserver-common and xserver-xorg-core

all the X11 packages i have installed (devuan excalibur, kde) are maintained by debian (Debian X Strike Force) except for the two packages above, which are forked by devuan (Maintainer: Devuan Developers).

does anybody know why these two packages need to be forked?

is debian adding systemd hooks into these packages?

are these packages already systemd-ised when debian gets them?

this is not causing any problem, just curious.

blackhole

Member

Registered: 2020-03-16

Posts: 223  

Re: Xorg devuan forks

There seems to be a dependency for xserver-xorg-core on "libsystemd0".

Not sure what the issue was with xserver-common.

ralph.ronnquist

Administrator

From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

Posts: 1,690  

Re: Xorg devuan forks

They were forked so as to add seatd as alterantive to logind for device mediation.

grunchy

Member

Registered: 2024-01-01

Posts: 45  

Re: Xorg devuan forks

They were forked so as to add seatd as alterantive to logind for device mediation.

thanks for this. good to know it is not directly systemd related. binding X11 to systemd did not make any sense to me, but i forgot about [e]logind.

i wonder, will the same mod be made to the xlibre packages?

rolfie

Member

Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,461  

Re: Xorg devuan forks

i wonder, will the same mod be made to the xlibre packages?

There are xlibre packages that are especially made for Devuan.

fsmithred

Administrator

Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,925  

Re: Xorg devuan forks

seatd support was added to xlibre a few months ago. I made a freia test live iso with seatd and without elogind or consolekit. Also there's no display manager. Use 'startx' to get a graphical session.
https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … 4_1517.iso
login: user, password: user
root password is root