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Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME



On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 23:06 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 10:30 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about
> > systemd, GNOME or similar.
> 
> I don't hope either, I'm tired of these.
> 
> > I wouldn't have any issues with that, but at least right now systemd is
> > for me not yet production ready (it seems to miss proper dm-crypt
> > integration - or at least all those use cases where dm-crypt makes sense
> > at all).
> > 
> > Of course I can install the package but don't have to switch init= to
> > it, nevertheless it seems that already this alone adds several things
> > (udev rules, dbus stuff and some things in the maintainer scripts) that
> > *will* get enabled.
> 
> And does this cause any problems actually? Does your system no longer
> boot properly using sysvinit when systemd is installed?

Well, gdm3 does not start for a new installation, probably caused by
systemd(-logind). I had to use xfce4 instead as desktop for now, see
also bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=724731


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