On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 18:34:39 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Mark Hindley wrote:
> > Can you point me to any official documentation that says packages
> > should not depend on systemd-sysv?
>
> No, but why should they?
For documentation value, if nothing else: it's a way to say "this package
genuinely does need systemd as pid 1, and won't work without it".
> It does not guarantee that systemd is the currently-running init,
> nor that this will be so at the next boot.
No, and it's imperfect for those reasons; but for this not to be the
case, you have to override the init system in ways that you will hopefully
remember that you have done.
smcv
