Re: systemd situation in Jesssie
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:37:38PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 05/17/2014 02:57 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie.
> >>At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so,
> >>or will this change somewhere before Jessie becomes stable?
> >
> >Depending on your needs, installing systemd might be mandatory in
> >unstable already (e.g. gdm3 indirectly depends on it), but you do _not_
> >have to install systemd-sysv and thus make it the default init system.
> >
> >>I have servers running Jessie. Can I continue upgrading packages on a
> >>regular basis, without having to worry that one of these updates will
> >>uninstall half of my system and install systemd instead (and make my
> >>servers unbootable) ?
> >
> >Why would installing systemd remove half of your system, and why do you
> >expect that your servers will not boot with systemd as init?
>
> systemd has been on my Jessie install for some time. I've noted no
> difference. Ric
>
Same here - The only difference I noticed, was that suspend starting
working properly on my X300 laptop, so count me in as a happy systemd
user.
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