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>"as Debian have proven themselves (per the article) entirely amenable to retaining the ability to run without systemd" There's obviously more to this (and to
by daneel_w 3y ago
>"as Debian have proven themselves (per the article) entirely amenable to retaining the ability to run without systemd"
There's obviously more to this (and to Devuan) than just uninstalling systemd and installing sysvinit. Devuan's package repo (for which Debian is the upstream) contains a lot of customizations to allow certain packages to function with a sysvinit foundation.
- andrewaylett 3y agoAnd my understanding is that Debian would be quite happy to have those customisations too -- maybe with a little more upfront effort, as they have to coexist with systemd support. But with less ongoing effort, as the code is at least present to be able to tell if a change will break it. Ultimately though it's entirely up to the developers where they put their effort. If folk prefer to work on a fork, they're entitled to do that. And it is a bit refreshing to see people putting at least some effort into not-systemd, rather than complaining about being "forced" to use it.