On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 05:45:39PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Purely out of curiosity, I'd like to see what's involved in > switching a Debian buster system from systemd to sysv init.
The short version [1]: apt-get install -y sysvinit-core > Please, I don't want to restart or get involved in any of > the existing systemd/sysv flame wars [...] Phew! ;-) > First of all, is this even possible? See above. It's even easy. But see the somewhat longer version below. > Second, has anyone done it? If so, how did you do it? > Here's what I've discovered so far: [I see you already found out about [1], but Mate goes down the drain] That's right. "Modern" desktop environments (Gnome and derivatives, most probably also KDE) depend these days on systemd. I don't know how hard those dependencies are -- you'd want to look at Devuan [2] [3] to see how far they went, if at all, into fixing this. Since I'm not using a DE, but just a traditional window manager, I'm a happy Debian user without systemd. Cheers [1] https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd [2] https://devuan.org/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan -- tomás
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