Re: How about a fork of Jessie without systemd?

On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 05:27:46PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Don Marti ([email protected]):
> 
> > This is something I don't understand either.
> > On any packaging system it's easy to make an
> > "antipackage" that just has conflicts.  So why not
> > just make a "no-systemd" package and install it?
> 
> And indeed those have long existed, in the form of some of the various
> prevent-* packages by Debian developer Thorsten Glaser ('mirabilos').
> They work fine, FWIW.  https://eurynome.mirbsd.org/debs/debidx.htm
> https://wiki.debian.org/ThorstenGlaser

It's not that simple.
Many new packages will just not install because even though they don't
depend on systemd, they pick up systemd as a dep through automatic
dependency generation.

So basically, that would half freeze your debian system by preventing
many new packages from ever installing.

Marc
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