http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/
if you recall, yesterday i mentioned that i do not take risks with my business-critical laptop... except by about 5am i had completed most of the process of doing precisely that. the desktop that i run is *not* a normal one, by any means. i run fvwm2 with a 6x4 virtual desktop, which is started up with "startx &" - there is no display manager and i do not want to run one (ever). i start up a series of commands that i need (firefox, alsa-mixer, xchat, qjackctl) from the ~/.xinitrc file, and the only command i really ever run from the fvwm menu is "xterm", in which i then type "xpdf filename" and so on. so i am a good candidate for being able to at least try out some unusual "manual libsystemd0" removal techniques. BE WARNED. this involved: * disabling udev * returning to manual keyboard and mouse configuration in Xorg * adding a huge number of manual entries to /etc/modules however, i can now say that i am well on the way to removing libsystemd0. my next task (because i have multiarch i386 packages installed due to formerly running wine:i386 as well as running skype which is only available in i386 form) is to follow the exact same compilation process under an i386 debootstrapped chroot, to create the required i386 deb packages and install them. once that is done i will be able to do an "apt-get --purge remove libsystemd0:amd64 libsystemd0:i386" and i will be entirely free of systemd *and still have a functioning desktop". the reason why i am informing you of this is as encouragement so that you know it *can be done*. i would be most grateful therefore if you could make it much more convenient for me to be able to do this, whilst still keeping all the debian, TDE and deb-multimedia repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list that i have today, by keeping the devuan project strictly focussed on providing alternative packages instead of polarising the GNU/Linux community even further than pottering has already done (by devuan not creating an ubuntu-style total distro fork). l. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
