On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> 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 dependency tree of Buster to successfully > > convert to systvinit. > > If you specify "... on a desktop system", then maybe you're correct. > > For most servers, it shouldn't be an issue. The subject _was_ about desktops, MATE specifically, not servers. However, my trials with Buster was from a year ago. And I haven't tried a sysvinit install with it since. Perhaps some systemd dependencies have been eliminated. Be great if they all were! Init systems should never ever be dependencies. B
