Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Nick Phillips wrote:
> Debian has a good and hard-earned reputation for not messing up
> sysadmins' changes
Agreed. This is about the only thing I can currently use to
argue for use of Debian over *buntu in some places.
> So, is it actually feasible to provide such a prompt?
Not with debconf. Short of patching the apt in stable (and
aptitude, and cupt, and and and…) there is nothing that can
reliably show such a prompt.
The consequence is easy: show a debconf prompt on upgrade
that recomments the admin to “sudo apt-get install systemd-sysv”
and never ever switch a system automatically.
bye,
//mirabilos
--
«MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. »
“mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends
from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a
flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to
be a database” ‣‣‣ Please, http://deb.li/mysql and MariaDB, finally die!
Reply to: