On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:01:28PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:40:43 -1000 > Joel Roth <jo...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > What would especially float my boat, once there's a truly > > > depoetterized Devuan, is to have the package manager warn me at 160 > > > decibles if I decide to install something that pulls in any systemd > > > code, because if there's a way to run without systemd code, that's > > > how I want to run, even if it means someday I can no longer use > > > Gnumeric or Gimp. > > > > > > Let me give an analogy that's absolutely offtopic here, I use it > > > only as an analogy. Three years ago, I made a policy that no KDE > > > library or software would ever exist on any of Troubleshooters.Com > > > computers, any computers owned by Steve Litt, or any computers > > > owned by family members who expected me to be their IT department. > > > For the most part, I simply never install a package beginning with > > > "k". But once in a while I install an excellent sounding package, > > > only to see it starting to pull in KDE Krap, have to Ctrl+C out of > > > it, and then go back and painstakingly remove everything my install > > > put there. My life would have been easier if the package manager > > > told me THIS PACKAGE HAS KDE REQUIREMENTS, PROCEED N/y. > In the case of Devuan, systemd is a special case, indeed, the reason > for Devuan's existance, so I think a no brainer, idiot lite solution > would be appropriate for systemd, so that even those, like me, who know > nothing but "apt-get install great_sounding_app" get warned.
printf '\n\nPackage: libsystemd*\nPin: origin *\nPin-Priority: -1\n' \ >> /etc/apt/preferences printf '\n\nPackage: systemd\nPin: origin *\nPin-Priority: -1\n' \ >> /etc/apt/preferences You're welcome. Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng