Re: Installing an Alternative Init?
On Mon 10 Nov 2014 at 18:11:42 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> 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."
Indeed, '--exclude' isn't needed for d-i to install systemd. This was a
perceptive comment.
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