Tanstaafl wrote:
On 11/5/2014 1:35 PM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:It's not an RC bug because it's easy to overcome with a late command.Not understanding this reference - so, you're saying you *can* perform a clean install of Jessie using sysvinit for the init system, just using a special command during the install process?
No, what you can do is immediately uninstall systemd, and install systemvinit- "late" in the install process.
Personally, I don't see that as equivalent. There are way too many inter-twined dependencies that have to be unwound at that stage - making this quite different from a clean sysvinit install.
That the bug dates back quite a while - originally reported by someone trying to do a clean install of systemd, into Wheezy, makes me wonder about how real support for multiple init systems is really going to be as we move down the road.
I agree that it should be a showstopper. But then, I'm not part of the release team.
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