On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:26:48 -0500 Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote:
> I have been running Debian Sid on a laptop with a purged systemd for > quite a few months. Maybe when I now ran # aptitude update or > safe-upgrade for the first time after [snip] > Systemd is not on the system, so where did systemd-logind come from? > How can I block it and recover a usable virtual desktop for user? I'm not a package manager whisperer so I can't answer your question. But what would happen if you simply backed up the laptop's data and installed a clean Devuan on it? I'd imagine Devuan would be much more capable of remaining systemd-free than would any Debian, especially Sid. If your reason for Sid is you need new apps, you might consider a rolling release like Funtoo, Gentoo, Void, Spark (sans-systemd Arch), Manjaro-OpenRC and the like. I'm running Void right now, and check out my apps: ================================================== [slitt@mydesk ~]$ uname -a Linux mydesk 4.3.3_2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 23 07:55:09 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux [slitt@mydesk ~]$ firefox -v Mozilla Firefox 43.0.4 [slitt@mydesk ~]$ ================================================== SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
