systemd being pulled in during dist-upgrade
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:
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# 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]
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thanks
-Stan Johnson
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