On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:19:00 -0700 koanhead <ak...@freegeekseattle.org> wrote:
> On 08/10/2014 10:30 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > ... I have a philosophical problem with systemd, I suspect it will > > cause problems, my fallback is OpenBSD (or maybe Debian/kFreeBSD, > > thanks Reco) > > For the record, in case anyone is interested, I'm writing this from a > Jessie box without systemd. It's easy to make this happen, and it > works just fine as long as you don't use GNOME or MATE, possibly KDE, > or those functions of other DEs that require a systemd component. > > All I did was use aptitude interactively to remove systemd-* and then > review and adjust the solutions as necessary. Nothing broke or caught > fire. > > I'm not a particular fan nor partisan of systemd. I have used (and > supported) it in the past on various servers. I think > systemd-as-default is wrong for Debian if only because it's > Linux-only (and therefore not Universal) but I do find it good that > Debian supports systemd. > > I've set up this systemd-less box mostly to show that it can be done. > It can. It's not even difficult. > > To the best of my knowledge, it is still necessary for a human to decide to boot with systemd. One of my sid systems, fully updated in the last week, is still on init. There are three that I know are running systemd, I explicitly added the switch to the kernel boot parameters to make this happen. I do not believe it happens automatically yet. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140811083417.3d506...@jresid.jretrading.com