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The systemd interface portability and stability chart lists logind as not being independently reimplementable, and I don't see that changing soon.

Steve Langasek was an Upstart project leader, and systemd-shim was never intended to be more than a temporary workaround, from what I know. Fact is, targeting the internal D-Bus interfaces is an exercise in perpetually playing catch-up.

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I think the 'Reimplementable Independently' just means that it is straightforward to reimplement on top of systemd (although that isn't made very clear). Since the external login DBus interface is standardized, I can't imagine why it would be difficult to reimplement logind on top of another init system.

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