On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 12:11:27PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I suspect that what the people who ask for this are thinking of is a > step in the installer sequence at which you are prompted to choose which > init system you want to be installed, such that the installer will never > even attempt to install any other init system.
Yes, yes, we know. But they're not going to GET this, so we are giving them alternative ways to accomplish their goals. I use fvwm, but you don't hear me asking for the debian-installer team to add a user interface option to let me install fvwm. This is because I'm in a *small minority* of users, and it's not worth their time to build a user interface option that only a small minority of users are going to care about, especially when I can achieve the same goal by running a simple apt-get command after the install. Likewise, people who prefer sysvinit are a small minority, and they can achieve their goal by running a simple apt-get command after the install. There is no need to rewrite a complex user interface to accomodate this.
