didier gaumet wrote: > Le 03/06/2019 à 07:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > [...] > > The install includes lots of choices [...] So, why not > > init? > > I think a Debian maintainer had answered in the past something like > while not using systemd himself, he admitted the perceived percentage of > Debian anti-systemd users was not so important to justify it, because > one can relatively easily desinstall systemd and install sysv after install.
There's a big problem with the popularity argument: it depends on popcon, and popcon is overwhelmingly not installed by people who care about security... who are likely to be professional sysadmins. > for a modern DE at least, systemd seems to be a requirement, but not as > an init system? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Ancillary_components Correct, at least until Buster's GNOME, which will require it. Hopefully Buster's XFCE will not; I don't know. -dsr-
