12 Mar
2023
12 Mar
'23
10:59 p.m.
On Sun March 12 2023 15:17:51 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Sorry, but since when do es debian give you the
freedom to remove systemd?
I have never used systemd - not because of any bugs but because the
deliberately cathedral design takes over a large part of GNU/Linux
infrastructure and makes future bazaar innovation more difficult.
I used Devuan for less than a year before switching back to Debian
in 2019.
Upon switching back I did indeed need one hack. IIRC it was that the
quagga maintainer had removed an init script to force migration to
systemd. All I had to do was copy an init script from an earlier
Debian release.
Today I have no hacks and Debian without systemd runs fine on servers,
virtual machines, and laptops. (And I switched from quagga to frr
which is newer and better supported.)
And it may be that I should thank the Devuan team for keeping Debian
on its toes.
--Mike