I bite the bullet and gone to the dark side
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Isnt elogind part of systemd?
Yeah it is but systemd is a suite of apps (see, a collective) and elogind is a standalone, the claim is still true
i could be wrong here but didnt elogind need to be patched to work with other inits?
I don't think elogind hooks into other inits directly, but it it is a fork of the logind part of systemd that has been altered so that it can work without systemd, if that's what you mean.