On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:23:15 -0400 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> 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. So did I. Started with a clean, netistall, terminal only Stretch system, converted to sysvinit, but left the systemd libraries as dependencies. No problems, not even during apt upgrade. Sysvinit remains the default init. > I hope that this situation continues in the next iteration of Stable, > but if not - I have investigated OpenRC and nosh, and determined to my > own satisfaction that openrc does not offer enough benefits to be > worth the cost of changing over, but nosh might. Take a look at runitinit and runit (the supervisor). I was considering it as an improvement over sysvinit when I was looking to completely purge systemd, but found too many Debian apps, etc. have some part of systemd as a dependency and I'd have to jump through too many hoops to be totally free of it with the resulting system being potentially less stable. Something I DIDN'T want. FYI: Testing Devuan ascii now for future consideration. No problems so far. Still like runit though. And it's easy to convert the default sysvinit to it. B
