Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Brian wrote:
> On Mon 10 Nov 2014 at 14:48:15 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>
> > On 11/10/2014 2:44 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> > > Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > > Am 10.11.2014 um 19:26 schrieb Patrick Bartek:
> > > > > Maybe, the release after Jessie will include an init choice.
> > > > Ironically, jessie is the first release where you can actually install
> > > > an alternative init.
> > > > Up until now you were forced to use sysvinit.
> > > >
> > > > People seem to forget that.
> > > By the way, the bug that prevents pre-seeding a clean systemv
> > > installation, originally dates to problems pre-seeding a clean systemd
> > > install in Wheezy.  Kind of ironic.
> > Not ironic... telling...
> >
> > This proves that the bug has been known for plenty long enough to have
> > gotten fixed... obviously someone didn't want to...
> You tell us that you didn't choose to fix the bug and neither did
> "someone".
>
> Furthermore, this "someone" actually didn't want to fix bug? You hint at
> knowledge only you possess. Please reveal all. This person deserves to
> be named and shamed.

Actually, if you read the history of the bug, one of the earlier 
comments was from Joey Hess, who commented:

"I don't think that's necessarily true, there are many ways d-i could 
handle getting systemd installed, and if it were made the default, 
--exclude would not be needed at all."

Miles Fidelman