On July 5, 2017 9:11:27 AM PDT, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >On 2017-07-05 at 11:27, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, David Griffith wrote: > >>> It would be nice to have an install-time option for selecting the >desired init. >> >> It already exists: >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00097.html >> >> « >> You can just append: >> >> preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" >> >> to the installer command line. > >I suspect that what the people who ask for this are thinking of is a >step in the installer sequence at which you are prompted to choose >which >init system you want to be installed, such that the installer will >never >even attempt to install any other init system. > >This differs from the suggested methods to date not only in avoiding >"systemd-sysv was installed, then sysvinit-core replaced it later on" >(which some of the suggested methods may also do), but also in the UX; >having it presented to you as a choice, rather than having to know >about >it in advance and take separate steps on your own, makes a significant >cosmetic and psychological difference, as well as affecting >discoverability. > >If the installer doesn't present the option, then it's not really "an >install-time option" in a certain sense; it takes on more the shape of >advanced / expert hackery, rather than appearing to be something the >developers actually support. > >I think that's the mindset, anyway. > >-- > The Wanderer > >The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one >persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all >progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard >Shaw
These are exactly my motivations for an install-time prompt. -- David Griffith d...@661.org
