On Sat 11 Oct 2014 at 13:01:38 -0400, James Ensor wrote: > No, I don't think you are missing anything, I just did a really bad > job at translating things from my head to my keyboard, and I confused > two arguments.... Part of that is that I've lost track of who is > saying what. > > In my original post, I just pointed out that it's easy to pick an init > system other than systemd by purging it. I was just trying to be > practical.
You will notice that not a single person has disputed this. The argument has instead been shifted to something else. Avoid agreement is the name of the game. > Subsequent posts seemed to get waaaay off topic, uninformative, and > possibly misleading about how many other things one would lose by > removing systemd. I think someone even stated that, by removing > systemd, a computer would be terrible for daily use. That's just > false. Of course it is, but when there is an agenda...... > What I was trying to say here is that people seem to want to debate > the philosophy/quality/whatever about systemd, and have used this to > come to wrong conclusions about the practical aspect of using an > alternate init system. It's only some people. Mind you, they have managed to generate some 1,000 posts in fighting yesterday's battles and ignoring reality. > And, just for the record, I started this exercise just because I was > curious what would happen if I removed systemd. I don't claim to > understand all the complexities of init systems (as you have been able > to tell). Honestly my system seemed to be working just fine with > systemd, and it's working fine without it. I don't really have an > opinion about it. Many of the opinions I have seen expressed in this > thread seem to me to be based not on any facts or knowledge, but more > on prejudice. Too practical. :) Why use something which is available in preference to something which doesn't exist? -- 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/11102014191736.8d72aebea...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk