[Discuss] Debian adds another systemd dependency, Busybox drops it

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/3/2015 10:31 AM, Thompson, David wrote:
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>> Systemd drama aside, an unprivileged Xorg sounds very useful.
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> Tangentially, we've had genuinely unprivileged X servers for a long time.
> VNC's standalone X servers do not require root and to the best of my
> knowledge never have. Combined with DirectVNC, a Linux framebuffer VNC
> client, and you can have X without root without systemd hackery.

True.   But I think most people want X servers that take advantages of
all the graphics acceleration features in modern graphics cards.
Those X servers have in my experience usually required running them as
root.

Bill Bogstad