On Fri 10 Oct 2014 at 18:50:48 -0400, James Ensor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why install sysv-rc, sysvinit and sysvinit-utils? To change from systemd > > to sysvinit it is surely enough to do > > > > aptitude install sysvinit-core > > I did that because I didn't know which one to install, so I just did > them all. Doesn't seem to have created any problems, but thanks for > clarifying sysvinit-core is sufficient
On the present unstable: sysv-rc is a required package. Systemd depends on it. So it will be on the system anyway. sysvinit depends on init, an essential package. It provides an init in /lib/sysvinit/ in case /sbin/init fails. It needn't be on the system and can be safely removed if booting with systemd is fine. Not needed (for obvious reasons) when sysvinit-core is installed. sysvinit-utils is a required package. sysv-rc depends on it. So it will be on the system anyway. No harm done. Different routes taken to the same objective. > > Yes and no. You have to reboot before this command can be successfully > > carried out, otherwise the running system will complain very loudly you > > are doing something it will not obey. > > It did complain at this step, gave me a big warning that I was > removing something that was currently in use, so I did reboot at some > point, I can't remember if it was before or after purging systemd. > Could very well have been required to reboot before purging. Rebooting before removing is indeed necessary. > > > aptitude purge libsystemd-login0 libsystemd-daemon0 > > > > Purely optional. Say goodbye to cups-daemon if you purge libsystemd0. > > (libsystemd-daemon0 is a transitional library on unstable). > > I still had libsystemd0 even after doing this, so my cups-daemon > remained intact it appears. I mentioned libsystemd0 because the functionality of libsystemd-daemon0, libsystemd-journal0 and libsystemd-login0 is now all in one library. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
