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Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)



Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 1. Whether or not there's a clear statement regarding the installer - will
> users be presented with a clear choice of init systems during installation,
> or is it going to be left to folks to figure out how to work around the
> default installation of systemd?

It's not been requested, but typically we (the d-i team) don't put
things in d-i that can easily be accomplished afterwards by people
who want to customize their system by running some simple apt-get
install command.

I suppose it could be asked in expert mode, but the question then
becomes, is it worth complicating d-i with this, bothering to get the
UI about it translated into dozens of languages, so increasing the
overall size and memory usage of d-i?

d-i already has powerful preseeding capabilities that can be used to
customize the installer to eg, run that apt-get command before the
reboot. It would not be hard for some interested user to put the
necessary preseed file on a website, and then booting the installer with 
"install url=http://out.out.vile.init/"; would apply the preseed file.
Although I don't know why someone would want to do that, unless it's not
kosher to have systemd ever being installed on a new system, even for
the minute it takes to boot and remove it.

-- 
see shy jo

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