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+# stolen from: https://github.com/MarkusVolk/meta-wayland/blob/master/recipes-core/seatd/seatd_git.bb
+
+SUMMARY = "A minimal seat management daemon, and a universal seat management library."
+DESCRIPTION = "Seat management takes care of mediating access to shared devices (graphics, input), without requiring the applications needing access to be root."
+AUTHOR = "kennylevinsen"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd"
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "BSD-0-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=715a99d2dd552e6188e74d4ed2914d5a"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd;protocol=https"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = ",,systemd"
+PACKAGECONFIG[sysvinit] = ",,elogind"
+
+# On systems without logind/elogind, you need to use libseat-builtin.
+# You have to suid the sway binary. Sway will drop root permissions shortly after startup.
+PACKAGECONFIG[libseat-builtin] = "-Dlibseat-builtin=enabled -Dlibseat-logind=disabled,-Dlibseat-builtin=disabled"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[man-pages] = ",,scdoc-native"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= " \
+	${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)} \
+	${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'sysvinit', d)} \
+"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+PV = "0.5.0+${SRCREV}"
+SRCREV = "2204db5531ed16bf32f969645e7177f6118f8a8e"
+
+inherit meson
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON += "--buildtype release"