On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:34:01 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2016-11-25 at 14:02, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > > > Seriously tho; If you had RTFM you would have known systemd and > > friends were going to be the default on upgrade and taken steps to > > migrate your init.d scripts beforehand. > > To be fair, it's entirely reasonable to expect that a change in what > defaults will only affect new installs, not upgrades; in an upgrade > scenario, the defaults have already been applied (during the original > install), so there's no reason for the new defaults to get invoked.
It's not clear to me whether the OP upgraded with dist-upgrade or with a new install. "This time I find the current Debian as part of the install process..." suggests the latter. I do have another problem understanding the OP. Their list of required software makes no mention of a DE, yet they appear to use one, and to have installed nine times as many packages as they desire. I can't square that with someone who hacks Unix source code and claims to have been using Debian since it was version 0.9X or earlier, a time when the total number of *files* in the distribution was far fewer than the number of *packages* available now. Cheers, David.
