Re: Irony

[Joe <joe@jretrading.com>]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:19:00 -0700
koanhead <akane@freegeekseattle.org> wrote:

> On 08/10/2014 10:30 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ... I have a philosophical problem with systemd, I suspect it will
> > cause problems, my fallback is OpenBSD (or maybe Debian/kFreeBSD,
> > thanks Reco)
> 
> For the record, in case anyone is interested, I'm writing this from a
> Jessie box without systemd. It's easy to make this happen, and it
> works just fine as long as you don't use GNOME or MATE, possibly KDE,
> or those functions of other DEs that require a systemd component.
> 
> All I did was use aptitude interactively to remove systemd-* and then
> review and adjust the solutions as necessary. Nothing broke or caught
> fire.
> 
> I'm not a particular fan nor partisan of systemd. I have used (and
> supported) it in the past on various servers. I think
> systemd-as-default is wrong for Debian if only because it's
> Linux-only (and therefore not Universal) but I do find it good that
> Debian supports systemd.
> 
> I've set up this systemd-less box mostly to show that it can be done.
> It can. It's not even difficult.
> 
> 

To the best of my knowledge, it is still necessary for a human to
decide to boot with systemd. One of my sid systems, fully updated in the
last week, is still on init. There are three that I know are running
systemd, I explicitly added the switch to the kernel boot parameters to
make this happen. I do not believe it happens automatically yet.

-- 
Joe