On Tue 17 Sep 2019 at 09:13:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:11:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > What causes systemd-sysv to be installed? > > wooledg:~$ aptitude why systemd-sysv > i udev Depends dpkg (>= 1.19.3) | systemd-sysv > > OK... I'll admit, I do not quite understand that dependency. But > what I really need to do is check this on a jessie system, which > is where systemd became the default (even when upgrading from wheezy). > > root@<jessie>:~# aptitude why systemd-sysv > i init PreDepends systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart > > That makes a lot more sense to me.
Upgrades from wheezy to jessie did not change the init system because libpame-systemd had the dependency systemd-shim (>= 8-2) | systemd-sysv -- Brian.
