On Sun, 2018-10-14 at 10:23 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Throughout Jessie and Stretch, I have been running Debian without > systemd as the init system. If systemd became installed by accident, > I > promptly removed it in favor of sysvinit. > > I have done so on six desktops, two laptops, and a large number (I > will > not specify, but in the hundreds) of servers. > > I have encountered no problems that can be attributed to my choice of > init system.
I take it you don't have encrypted disks then, because with them Stretch will hang on shutdown if you aren't using systemd as the init process [1], that was the reason I finally gave in and installed systemd when I upgraded to Stretch. The nail in the coffin was the comments linked to from that bug report where udev upstream maintainers said they don't support non-systemd init (udev is part of the systemd project now). [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794721 -- Tixy
