No comment anyone?

Ok then. I guess I will have to test it myself later on.

For those with the same objective, I decided to keep my PC and 2 VPS' at
the current Debian Testing packages, but striped systemd and its
components as much as possible. There are still files especially on
/etc/systemd, /lib/systemd and /var/lib/systemd but the only package
matched with *systemd* is libsystemd0. It is currently at version
215-11. I pinned Package: *systemd* to Pin-Priority: -1 to make sure
that they will not be pulled back again. I hope everything will still
work with regular weekly update before I switch to Devuan.

On 16/02/15 21:16, Anto wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I am not sure if this was due to a principle reason or ego, but I
> really want to have a Debian-like OS that is free of any systemd and
> its related packages. I just want to have a freedom to choose the
> packages that I want to use, instead of being forced to use the one
> and only. So I am preparing to switch my notebook and 2 of my Xen VPS'
> from Debian into Devuan.
>
> My notebook is currently running on Debian Jessie. It switched into
> systemd sometime last year after I did dist-upgrade. When I tried to
> roll that back, I ended up in dependencies hell. So I thought I keep
> it while I am waiting for LMDE2. Sorry, I didn't know about Devuan
> until about 2 months ago, hence the thought. But in any case, I don't
> have any issue to clean install it later on.
>
> I am more concerned with my 2 Xen VPS'. One of them is still running
> on Debian Wheezy and the other one on Debian Jessie. As you know, even
> on Debian Wheezy, some important packages are already locked into
> systemd, e.g. dbus and udev. So I am thinking to downgrade them to
> Debian Squeeze as my VPS providers still provide the image for that.
>
> I will possibly have to recompile some of the packages to have the
> same versions as the ones that I currently use. I just mainly need
> nginx, php5 and sqlite3 packages. But I am not really sure yet what
> problems will I get if I would recompile them in Debian Squeeze. Some
> required libraries might be too old for the new versions.
>
> So I really appreciate any advices to be able to smoothly upgrade my
> VPS' to Devuan later on.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anto
>
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