On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 06:09:12PM +0200, john doe wrote: > On 10/14/2018 4:23 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Throughout Jessie and Stretch, I have been running Debian without > > systemd as the init system. If systemd became installed by accident, I > > promptly removed it in favor of sysvinit. > > > > If I understand correctly, on a fresh install of Debian systemd is > purge.systemd. > If yes, why not going for a Debian derivative that does not include > systemd per default: > > https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=Debian¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=Not+systemd&status=Active#simple
Er, because I like Debian? I've been using it since 1.3. > Or were all your hosts upgraded from a version where systemd was not > installed? Some, not all. On new systems, I remove systemd in favor of sysvinit, as I said. -dsr-