Re: lightweight wifi UI (Was: Insidious systemd)
didier gaumet wrote:
> Le 03/06/2019 à 07:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
> [...]
> > The install includes lots of choices [...] So, why not
> > init?
>
> I think a Debian maintainer had answered in the past something like
> while not using systemd himself, he admitted the perceived percentage of
> Debian anti-systemd users was not so important to justify it, because
> one can relatively easily desinstall systemd and install sysv after install.
There's a big problem with the popularity argument: it depends
on popcon, and popcon is overwhelmingly not installed by people
who care about security... who are likely to be professional
sysadmins.
> for a modern DE at least, systemd seems to be a requirement, but not as
> an init system?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Ancillary_components
Correct, at least until Buster's GNOME, which will require it.
Hopefully Buster's XFCE will not; I don't know.
-dsr-
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