Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has posted on Mastodon about their upcoming v256 release of Systemd, which is expected to include a sudo replacem...
  • notabot@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Debian works fine without systemd too, there’s a page on the wiki on how to install without it, or remove it after the fact.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      A lot of debs add services to systemd, do those just skip that part?

      • notabot@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        They seem to. Debian explicitly supports multiple init systems, sysvinit being the primary alternative, so packages have to handle systemd-init not being there.

    • rcbrk@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Easy with sudo apt remove --purge --allow-remove-essential --auto-remove systemd:

      The predictable failure of things towards the end of apt running the above command. Still in a gnome terminal, but the apt script couldn't even complete due to a bunch of stuff now missing

      Uh-oh.. a black vt on reboot, complaining that no inittab found..

      :-D Time to go outside.