-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 10:01:17AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I've been considering Stretch as a clean install or dist-upgrade of my > aging Wheezy desktop setup as well as to install on a new notebook I've > yet to decide on. I don't like systemd (why is unimportant to this > query). I plan to use some other init system, probably runit. So ... > > Just how dependent has Stretch's system become on systemd? I don't > mean applications or GNOME, etc. with systemd dependency that I can > choose not to install, but the system itself, the guts, the basics, the > things and tools it needs to work properly.
I think it's pretty unproblematic. Just the other day there was a call for testers (by Ian Jackson, no less) for a new SysV init version targeted at testing (stretch). I think things didn't change dramatically since Jessie: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_stay_with_sysvinit_in_Debian_Jessie.html http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Debian_Stretch (and many more). Ignore the "remove" bit if you're installing from scratch: you can do the apt-pinning thing even before systemd gets installed (at least I remember that from my last install). (And btw: it might be a good chance to give Ian feedback on how it went, hint, hint :) Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAli4hMkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYQ/wCfU+LUekvrCvMoM3yOt5Dy8AQY f8UAn1FZV7DT4VnX7ayECLUaG5S/FghJ =9t0A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
