Miles Fidelman wrote: > 1. Whether or not there's a clear statement regarding the installer - will > users be presented with a clear choice of init systems during installation, > or is it going to be left to folks to figure out how to work around the > default installation of systemd?
It's not been requested, but typically we (the d-i team) don't put things in d-i that can easily be accomplished afterwards by people who want to customize their system by running some simple apt-get install command. I suppose it could be asked in expert mode, but the question then becomes, is it worth complicating d-i with this, bothering to get the UI about it translated into dozens of languages, so increasing the overall size and memory usage of d-i? d-i already has powerful preseeding capabilities that can be used to customize the installer to eg, run that apt-get command before the reboot. It would not be hard for some interested user to put the necessary preseed file on a website, and then booting the installer with "install url=http://out.out.vile.init/"; would apply the preseed file. Although I don't know why someone would want to do that, unless it's not kosher to have systemd ever being installed on a new system, even for the minute it takes to boot and remove it. -- see shy jo
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