Le vendredi 27 janvier 2012 à 16:14 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit : > 'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 27/01/12 15:52 did gyre and gimble: > > Le vendredi 27 janvier 2012 à 10:07 +0000, Colin Guthrie a écrit : > >> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 27/01/12 00:00 did gyre and gimble: > >>> Daemons will work under sysvinit. Just need to be installed > >> > >> Cool, I'll keep it in mind. They shouldn't need anything special to be > >> honest and I think systemd is required by basesystem anyway > > > > I fear some people may not like this, can we avoid adding a hard > > requires, and in this case, split the package ? > > > > ( or at least, if we cannot do otherwise, we need to document it, and > > how to disable systemd in the release notes, with clear instruction. > > People will complain, but we will answer "this is documented" ). > > Systemd is just installed, it doesn't mean it's used. You need to > install systemd-sysvinit for it to replace sysvinit.
Yes, I know this is just installed and not used, but I am pretty sure that some people will complain. > While I'm sure we could split the package up, I'm not really sure how > much it gains in practice other than a few kb of disk space. Disk space is not the concern. Making sure I do not start to kill people who complain "systemd cannot be removed, this is an outrage !!" is the concern :) But if this cannot be done or too hard, no problem. -- Michael Scherer