On Sunday 18 March 2018 08:01:39 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2018 schrieb Frank Lienhard:
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As I point out in my "quick & dirty" method, I avoid these problems by saving the packages to an external drive, then use dpkg to install them when necessary.
In the beginning of KDE4 I thought I might use trinity myself, but went more "spartan" some time ago by using fluxbox. And since I learned, that this "special" user tends to forget things anyway, I use anydesk now to solve problems, which are the same anyway and are NOT depending on which DE is used, so maybe I just use software from the official repros to avoid trouble like this.
If you stay with debian be prepared for systemd shooting it's foot in creative ways ...
Already doing my homework online. If anybody wants links to Devuan stuff, by the way, I found some interesting posts about what to install and purge, and how to enable networking before installation (thus solving a big problem with Debian-type installations); how to get rid of both systemd and dbus.
I hear that systemd is better in many ways, and that there really are two sides to this story. However, I see how systemd performs on my system all the time (especially when I try to shutdown or reboot), and I long for the simple, slow sanity of sysvinit again.
Bill