Re: [Trisquel-users] Why are we based on Ubuntu and not Debian?

[andyprough]

> Debian's lightdm package works fine with or without systemd. Devuan's  
changes just remove systemd support. This has no benefit for non-systemd  
users, which presumably includes all Devuan users.

That's a fair point. Devuan's devs appear to have a specific philosophy of  
not supporting systemd as a counterpoint to Debian. Antix's top dev is  
anticaptilalista, who has made public statements saying that Antix will never  
include systemd, but he seems more than happy to work hand-in-hand to help  
the MX devs develop their distro. MX offers both sysvinit and systemd, with  
the default being sysvinit, and the user getting the choice at boot time. So  
Antix would be harming MX which is downstream if it got rid of systemd  
support. (or maybe "downstream" is not the correct term, but Antix is the  
distro that gets released earlier, and MX uses Antix's code and releases a  
few months later).