[Arm-netbook] Doing without systemd

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:41:07PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 04:02:23PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > 
> >  for example, until i discovered that angband.pl actively maintains
> > systemd-less debian packages for xorg, udev, pulseaudio and several
> > critical pre-systemd packages (including consolekit), i was forced to
> > make an extremely risky *MANUAL* removal of systemd.  that included
> > REMOVING udev entirely and MANUALLY maintaining entries in /dev (!)  i
> > also had to add a hundred entries into /etc/modules - some of which i
> > could not determine so had to actually not have access to critical
> > hardware for a considerable amount of time.
> 
> For the record, I feel called on to point out that Devuan has done most 
> of that for you,  but I suspect that you already know that, and it 
> wasn't ready at the time.
> 
> So you other guys:
> If you're removing systemd from Debian, just use Devuan instead -- it's 
> already (mostly) been done for you!

In another thread someone mentioned trusting people. I trust the
maintainer of angband.pl generally more than maintainers of Devuan, from
observed behavior.

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