On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 18:34:39 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Mark Hindley wrote: > > Can you point me to any official documentation that says packages > > should not depend on systemd-sysv? > > No, but why should they?
For documentation value, if nothing else: it's a way to say "this package genuinely does need systemd as pid 1, and won't work without it". > It does not guarantee that systemd is the currently-running init, > nor that this will be so at the next boot. No, and it's imperfect for those reasons; but for this not to be the case, you have to override the init system in ways that you will hopefully remember that you have done. smcv