by cynwulf » January 22nd, 2015, 5:27 pm
It's good to know what's on your system, but it's not good when people just don't understand what the stuff on their system actually does or why it's there and simply come to their own conclusions. For example - with regards to libsystemd0, I'm not sure that's worth several hours trying to purge it or building your own bsdutils to avoid it... it might be, but I'd like to see some evidence that it's running a daemon which opens a back door for Lennart Poettering first... before spending time procrastinating, hand wringing and apt pinning...
I think the "all the systemd shit OUT" is just the unintelligent bazooka vs gnat approach from some Debian users who have never really gone beyond package management and just see packages with systemd in the name installed and get all hysterical.
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Well systemd is taking over Debian anyway, but you can run Debian for the time being without it - how long that will be is anyone's guess, but due to the nature of Debian and big software projects in general, it will eventually polarise and support for sysvinit from package maintainers will just erode and decay away. Especially if upstream start dropping it from newer releases or make it harder to support.