On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: - snip -
> > Anyway, that's enough of this advocacy lark, we will look at the > technical points you posted about. They are worth a look or two/ > > > looking to wade into any arguments about systemd. I certainly do not > > claim to have solved any great crisis... > > > > Anyway, this is what I did: > > > > aptitude install sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils > > Why install sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils? To change from systemd > to sysvinit it is surely enough to do > > aptitude install sysvinit-core > I did that because I didn't know which one to install, so I just did them all. Doesn't seem to have created any problems, but thanks for clarifying sysvinit-core is sufficient > > aptitude purge systemd > > Yes and no. You have to reboot before this command can be successfully > carried out, otherwise the running system will complain very loudly you > are doing something it will not obey. > It did complain at this step, gave me a big warning that I was removing something that was currently in use, so I did reboot at some point, I can't remember if it was before or after purging systemd. Could very well have been required to reboot before purging. > > aptitude purge libsystemd-login0 libsystemd-daemon0 > > Purely optional. Say goodbye to cups-daemon if you purge libsystemd0. > (libsystemd-daemon0 is a transitional library on unstable). > I still had libsystemd0 even after doing this, so my cups-daemon remained intact it appears. > > Just for kicks, I also purged cgmanager. I guess I like to live > > dangerously. Nothing bad seems to have happened. > > So your install wasn't a new one from a Jessie d-i. And you were not > upgrading from Wheezy. Those are statements, not questions. > > > Like I said, the only thing I was using that was also removed was > > network-manager, but I don't really miss it. > > > > But, to get more to the point of my original question, there has been > > so much discussion about systemd here, but as far as I can tell very > > little of this discussion has been of practical use for a debian-user. > > You have good judgement. > I don't hear that very often.... ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cafxvjvdycloxirckzbo_bwyao8mich2mqiyuyqxtwggaqyk...@mail.gmail.com
