Re: How about a fork of Jessie without systemd?

I'm particularly annoyed by systemd, period. Nothing wrong with the
way things were - systemd goes completely against the Unix idea of one
small utility doing one thing well, and it just comes across as change
for the sake of change as a monument to someone's ego.

No matter - hooray for Rick! Thank you! I hope I don't have to worry
about this when Linux Mint goes systemd in the next release
(reportedly)...

On 5/14/16, Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Following up on a thread from last July:
>
>> I've found it trivial to migrate a Debian Jessie system sideways to
>> OpenRC, which I've found a pleasantly well engineered and somewhat
>> BSDish relief from AT&T-derived SysV cruft.  Works fine - ergo, no
>> compelling present need for a distro fork even for dedicated systemd
>> haters, IMVAO.  (Views Differ[tm].)
>>
>> LWN.net's article at the time of the OpenRC package being new to Debian
>> (but already solid) from three years ago might still merit reading:
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/512719/
>>
>>   At least some in the Debian community are particularly annoyed by the
>>   systemd team's unwillingness to take patches for portability to kernels
>>   beyond Linux. That led Adam Borowski to jokingly dismiss OpenRC
>>   because it lacks "a hostile upstream". More seriously, Leigh pointed
>>   out that OpenRC uses some of the same features as systemd, but does so
>>   with portability in mind:  [...]
>
> Completing that task:
>
> I've now completely documented how to run Debian 8 'Jessie' with OpenRC
> and _keep_ it on OpenRC without allowing any dependency hairballs to
> drag the system onto systemd.
> http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/openrc-conversion.html  (I have also
> added said new page to
> http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Other_useful_sites .)
>
> I paid careful attention to Marc Merlin's point about Debian package
> problems because of complex dependency chains, using a little
> scripting to create what I believe is a complete list of where problems
> will lie -- and some suggestions for how to fix those.
>
> --
> Cheers,                                      "My life has a superb cast,
> Rick Moen                                    but I cannot figure out the
> plot."
> [email protected]                                       -- Ashleigh
> Brilliant
> McQ! (4x80)
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