On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:54:55PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I just tried updating testing on my system. I currently use > sysvinit-core (reasons below), but aptitude is telling me that I > should remove this in favour of systemd-sysv. Hmm, why is that? > Well, because the new version of libpam-systemd, 208-6, now depends on > systemd-sysv rather than systemd-sysv | systemd-shim. OK, so I'll > remove libpam-systemd. Ooops - that looks pretty disastrous, as so > much depends on it, so that's not an option: gdm3, gnome-bluetooth, > network-manager, policykit-1, udisks2.
> So I would presume that for many or most Debian systems, systemd is > now required, and no other /sbin/init providers will work. I'm > unclear whether this was a deliberate policy decision or an unintended > consequence of various package requirements. See bug #752939, which is currently blocked on cgmanager, which was in the NEW queue but for some reason seems to have been rejected rather than accepted. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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