On Ma, 11 nov 14, 12:34:10, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Laurent Bigonville wrote:
There are no functional differences between an installation with
sysvinit-core out of the box or an install where sysvinit-core is
installed later, this is a fact.
No, that's NOT a fact. At least it's not a tested and demonstrated fact for
complex configurations such as virtualized environments with complicated
file system wiring.
Wasn't this about clean (minimal) installs? Where did the all the
complications come from?
Based on previous experience, mostly with mail systems (install exim, then
replace with sendmail) and filesystems, it's very easy to find oneself with
all kinds of artifacts left behind by an install/replace process; as well as
finding one's way into lots of packages getting installed/replaced and
associated dependency hell.
Do you have any concrete evidence for such issues in this concrete case?
Because I'm quite sure the developers would like to know about them.
After all, that's the purpose of piuparts.
https://piuparts.debian.org/
https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/pass/systemd_215-5+b1.log