Re: systemd being pulled in during dist-upgrade
Try:
# aptitude why systemd
That may help answer the question.
Rick
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022, at 9:03 AM, Stan Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On a PowerBook G3 Pismo, I just upgraded Debian SID:
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get upgrade
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> As part of the dist-upgrade (see below), at least one package requires
> systemd as a dependency, causing the removal of sysvinit-core.
>
> After the dist-upgrade, I was able to remove systemd using a two-step
> process:
> # apt-get purge systemd
> Reboot and repeat:
> # apt-get purge systemd
>
> So there's a workaround, since I'm able to remove systemd eventually.
> It's just an inconvenience for those of us who choose to run sysvinit
> instead of systemd. IMO, systemd is slower and more intrusive on all
> systems than sysvinit. And while it may be ok or even preferable for
> larger (or corporate) systems, it is too slow for any m68k system or any
> powerpc system that is slower than about a Pismo (500 MHz with 1 GiB
> memory), and I don't want to use it there, either, since I use a common
> Debian SID installation for all of my powerpc systems.
>
> I can restore from a backup and re-run the dist-upgrade if anyone knows
> how to locate the specific package(s) triggering the dependency; it is
> likely one or more of the 25 packagees upgraded below:
>
> -----
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
> libperl5.32 libwebp6 linux-config-5.15 linux-source-5.15
> orphan-sysvinit-scripts perl-modules-5.32
> Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> libwacom2 sysvinit-core
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> dbus-user-session libjim0.79 libmbim-glib4 libmbim-proxy libmm-glib0
> libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libperl5.34 libpolkit-agent-1-0
> libqmi-glib5 libqmi-proxy libwacom-bin libwacom9 libwebp7 libxcvt0
> linux-source-5.16 modemmanager perl-modules-5.34 pkexec policykit-1
> polkitd systemd systemd-sysv systemd-timesyncd usb-modeswitch
> usb-modeswitch-data xcvt
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> fwupd libgd3 libimlib2 libinput-bin libinput10 liblocale-gettext-perl
> libmagickcore-6.q16-6 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
> libtiff5 libwacom-common libwebpdemux2 libwebpmux3 linux-source
> linux-source-5.15 perl perl-base xserver-xorg-core
> xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
> xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa
> 25 upgraded, 27 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 282 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 222 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> -----
>
> thanks
>
> -Stan Johnson
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