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Re: solving the network-manager-in-gnome problem



On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:31:26AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2012-07-24 08:16:43 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think it follows at all that because there are init systems
> > which conflict with sysvinit, Debian does not support multiple init
> > systems.
> 
> But in such a case, sysvinit shouldn't be an essential package (and
> packages that need it should thus have an explicit dependency on it),
> since it isn't really needed in a working Debian system.

sysvinit will drop the essential status in wheezy+1.  Just lack of
time and testing the consequences prevented this being done already.


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