>There a lot of artificial dependencies that you can't break. You still need libsystemd0 which is a compatibility library. It's actually unfortunately named, a

>There a lot of artificial dependencies that you can't break. You still need libsystemd0 which is a compatibility library. It's actually unfortunately named, as it isn't part of systemd itself. I've been using sysvinit on my Debian workstations since systemd became the default. It takes me about 5 minutes to switch a new system over (admittedly I don't use Gnome or KDE). The stackexchange thread you linked is out of date and switching is getting easier. I recommend following the debian-init-diversity mailing list for further info.