origin of this project: to take the excellent logind functionality
from systemd and provide it as a standalone package.
-We like systemd. We realize that there are people out there that hate
-it. You're welcome to use elogind for whatever purpose you like --
+You're welcome to use elogind for whatever purpose you like --
as-is, or as a jumping-off point for other things -- but please don't
-use it as part of some anti-systemd vendetta. Systemd hackers are
-smart folks that are trying to solve interesting problems on the free
-desktop, and their large adoption is largely because they solve
-problems that users and developers of user-focused applications care
-about. We are appreciative of their logind effort and think that
-everyone deserves to run it if they like, even if they use a different
-PID 1.
+use it as part of some anti-systemd vendetta. We are appreciative of
+the systemd developers logind effort and think that everyone deserves
+to run it if they like. Not matter what kind of PID1 they use.
Differences relative to systemd
-------------------------------
To build in directory build/:
meson build/ && ninja -C build
- Any configuration options can be specfied as -Darg=value... arguments
- to meson. After the build directory is initially configured, meson will
- refuse to run again, and options must be changed with:
- mesonconf -Darg=value...
- mesonconf without any arguments will print out available options and
+ Any configuration options can be specified as -Darg=value... arguments
+ to meson. After the build directory is initially configured, the configuration
+ can be changed with:
+ meson configure -Darg=value... build/
+ 'meson configure' without any arguments will print out available options and
their current values.
Useful commands:
DESTDIR=... ninja install
A tarball can be created with:
- git archive --format=tar --prefix=elogind-234/ v234 | xz > elogind-234.tar.xz
+ git archive --format=tar --prefix=elogind-238/ v238 | xz > elogind-238.tar.xz