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Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd



On Fri 18 Jul 2014 at 18:10:58 +0200, Erwan David wrote:

> Le 18/07/2014 17:52, Brian a ??crit :
> > On Fri 18 Jul 2014 at 11:21:51 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think one single person objected to the systemd software
> >> itself. It's right for some, not so right for others.
> >>
> >> All the objections had to do with forcing people to accept systemd. Vim
> >> and Emacs are both excellent, but if we all were forced to adopt Emacs,
> >> or if we were all forced to adopt Vim, all hell would break loose.
> >>
> >> The other thing is, a lot of people thought the current init system was
> >> working just fine.
> > They choose to stick with it then. Noone is being forced to accept
> > systemd.
> >
> >   Opting out of the switch                                                                                               ========================
> >
> >   If users want to opt out of the switch, they can install the 
> >   sysvinit-core package which will satisfy the dependency of the "init"
> >   package
> >
> >     https://lists.debian.org/87mwc9gfsw.fsf@xoog.err.no
> >
> >
> 
> That's quite afalse this... count every package which depends direectly
> or indirectly on systemd, often without real need...

I have no testing install to hand at the moment so perhaps you could
list these packages for us. Please indicate the ones for which there is
no "real need".


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