On Wed 29 May 2019 at 11:01:58 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > Is Debian slowly becoming systemd proprietary? It would be a great > loss to Linux and its philosophy if true. But that looks to be the > direction Debian is headed. > > Once I suggested on this list when systemd first debuted with Jessie > about choosing an init at install time as an option. It was not well > received. Many said it couldn't be done or was impractical. My reply > was, if you can change inits AFTER the install completes, why not > BEFORE.
I think it's beneficial to keep the d-i as simple as possible. Once you've installed the system, all the tools are now available for changing the init system to whichever one you choose. Adding that to the d-i just bloats it (for everyone) without any *essential* benefit to anyone. > The thread died of apathy shortly thereafter with no resolution. Perhaps because you didn't supply any patches for switching to even one other init system (within the d-i, or as a post-installation script). Cheers, David.
