On 3/13/17 4:33 PM, Martin Read wrote:
On 13/03/17 19:30, Patrick Bartek wrote:The Linux mantra has always been "choice," plethoras of choices. So why at install time, is there no choice for the init system?Looking at the BTS page for package 'debian-installer', nobody seems to have filed a wishlist bug requesting this feature.This seems like at least a contributory reason.
Actually, there have been numerous bugs filed against both debian-installer and debootstrap about failures of the --include and --exclude statements --- that directly effect the ability to specify sysvinit instead of systemd. I don't recall seeing close messages about all of them.
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