[Klaus Knopper] > Hi Petter, Hi.
> I'm afraid that the installation failing is just the beginning of > problems, or rather, much work to do. systemd replaces quite a few > services, interferes with acpid, consolekit, hal (if you still use > that), automount. Even if you got a working installation and press a > hotkey like poweroff, or close the lid of your notebook, you are up to > some surprises, not even talking about all of your init scripts not > working anymore. Thanks for the warning. Me too expect us to discover lots of problem after this migration, and am eager to get started on them. :) > There is a solution for the systemd dependency issue in Knoppix 7.4 > that (as usual) nobody from the Debian maintainer team will like, by > adding a sysvinit package that provides systemd-sysv, so you can, for > now, keep your sysvinit-based boot setup while the other packages, > that now rely on systemd-logins session management like > network-manager, libpam-systemd etc., and which would otherwise kill > sysvinit-core, are still working. I know it's a bad hack and I should > do a proper migration some day, yet I still prefer my homebrewn > startup system over the last and current standard in Debian and try to > keep it working, still being upgradable. If I understand correctly, this will not work proberly with Gnome, or any services expecting the features of systemd > 204, so I doubt it is a good way forward for us. But we will see when we are able to boot an installed system. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
