Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 05/17/2014 02:57 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie.
> > At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so,
> > or will this change somewhere before Jessie becomes stable?
>
> Depending on your needs, installing systemd might be mandatory in
> unstable already (e.g. gdm3 indirectly depends on it), but you do _not_
> have to install systemd-sysv and thus make it the default init system.
>
> > I have servers running Jessie. Can I continue upgrading packages on a
> > regular basis, without having to worry that one of these updates will
> > uninstall half of my system and install systemd instead (and make my
> > servers unbootable) ?
>
> Why would installing systemd remove half of your system, and why do you
> expect that your servers will not boot with systemd as init?

systemd has been on my Jessie install for some time. I've noted no 
difference. Ric



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