[Arm-netbook] Doing without systemd

[Hendrik Boom]

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!

Why do I say mostly?  There are a few vestigial traces in the system -- 
such as libsystemd0, which provides a few systemd interfaces in a form 
that just reports that systemd is not present.  I think that package 
should really be called something like nosystemd.

-- hendrik