Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 19 Sep, 2020 at 14:31:57 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > While I'm an LXDE user myself I do acknowledge that other DEs might have > a different focus and/or priorities. As far as I can tell, providing > many options is something that GNOME seems to explicitly want to avoid, >

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 sep 20, 22:24:44, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:23:15 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 16 sep 20, 10:32:14, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > Short answer? Probably not. systemd has become too pervasive a > > > dependency to do so. It shouldn't be. No

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-18 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:23:15 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 16 sep 20, 10:32:14, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Short answer? Probably not. systemd has become too pervasive a > > dependency to do so. It shouldn't be. No other init system I know > > of is. > > Funny how systemd is

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 16 sep 20, 10:32:14, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Short answer? Probably not. systemd has become too pervasive a > dependency to do so. It shouldn't be. No other init system I know of > is. Funny how systemd is constantly "blamed" that *other* packages depend on it. Kind regards,

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-17 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:30 AM Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:44:03 -0700 > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > On 9/16/20 5:55 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 > > >> Greg Wooledge

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-17 Thread Rick Thomas
I too have been using Debian for over a decade, and I've come to rely on it, so I hear your concern at having to "switch" to something new. But I don't think Devuan is really all that "new". For almost two years I've had Devuan ascii with mate desktop in a VM that I use daily for a variety

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 9/16/20 9:12 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:44:03 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: On 9/16/20 5:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:44:03 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 9/16/20 5:55 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 > >> Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 9/16/20 5:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: To make a long story short, after two or so weeks of research and

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:55:45 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > To make a long story short,

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread David Wright
On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > To make a long story short, after two or so weeks of research and > > > numerous failed trials, I

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:22:17 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > dbus, which is an xorg dependency, > > Not in buster: > > # apt policy dbus > dbus: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 1.12.20-0+deb10u1 > Version table: >

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > To make a long story short, after two or so weeks of research and > > numerous failed trials, I came to the conclusion that systemd has > > become too entrenched in the

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Reco
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 03:41:41PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Reco wrote: > > > To make a long story short, after two or so weeks of research and > > > numerous failed trials, I came to the conclusion that systemd has > > > become too entrenched in the dependency tree of Buster to successfully >

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Reco wrote: > > To make a long story short, after two or so weeks of research and > > numerous failed trials, I came to the conclusion that systemd has > > become too entrenched in the dependency tree of Buster to successfully > > convert to systvinit. > > But it is possible. Just forget about

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > dbus, which is an xorg dependency, Not in buster: # apt policy dbus dbus: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.12.20-0+deb10u1 Version table: 1.12.20-0+deb10u1 500 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32:14AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > To make a long story short, after two or so weeks of research and > numerous failed trials, I came to the conclusion that systemd has > become too entrenched in the dependency tree of Buster to successfully > convert to systvinit.

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:28:34 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have a fresh install of Buster which is running MATE as the Desktop > Environment.  It has taken me until now to get it working, without > messing up my current Stretch install on the same machine.  The next > thing that I want to do

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Nito
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 19:28:34 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have a fresh install of Buster which is running MATE as the Desktop > Environment.  […]   The next thing that I > want to do is replace systemd with sysvinit. > > Now I get a full screen of packages to be removed.  Most are

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Andrew Cater
Looking at the Wikipedia entry for Devuan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan - it appears that the folks over there have had to modify precisely udisks2 and policykit. This is not a Devuan support list - but it looks as if stock Debian may not allow the switch once a full system is installed.

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 07:28:34PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > So, my question is:  Can I replace systemd with sysvint and still keep MATE? Exibit 1 (mate-core and systemd-sysv are installed): # apt install sysvinit-core systemd- ... The following packages will be REMOVED: caja

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 sep 20, 19:28:34, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I ran 'aptitude install sysvinit-core'.  This resulted in about 2 dozen > packages to be removed (some of which, I would have removed anyway) and a > similar number with unmet dependencies (mostly recommends).  I can live with > that and work

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 07:28:34PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I want sysvinit, not systemd Should be easy. > I ran 'aptitude install sysvinit-core'. > This gives me another screen full of text [...] > Now I get a full screen of packages to be removed. [...] I think the basic problem here is

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread songbird
Marc Shapiro wrote: ... > If it is possible to do what I want, what is the easiest way to > accomplish it? i haven't tried that as i'm ok with what i have going but i'll be interested in what you find out. can you clone your current partition and then try it out and if it doesn't work then