On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:01:28PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:40:43 -1000
> Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:
>
> > Steve Litt wrote:
> > > What would especially float my boat, once there's a truly
> > > depoetterized Devuan, is to have the package manager warn me at 160
> > > decibles if I decide to install something that pulls in any systemd
> > > code, because if there's a way to run without systemd code, that's
> > > how I want to run, even if it means someday I can no longer use
> > > Gnumeric or Gimp.
> > >
> > > Let me give an analogy that's absolutely offtopic here, I use it
> > > only as an analogy. Three years ago, I made a policy that no KDE
> > > library or software would ever exist on any of Troubleshooters.Com
> > > computers, any computers owned by Steve Litt, or any computers
> > > owned by family members who expected me to be their IT department.
> > > For the most part, I simply never install a package beginning with
> > > "k". But once in a while I install an excellent sounding package,
> > > only to see it starting to pull in KDE Krap, have to Ctrl+C out of
> > > it, and then go back and painstakingly remove everything my install
> > > put there. My life would have been easier if the package manager
> > > told me THIS PACKAGE HAS KDE REQUIREMENTS, PROCEED N/y.
> In the case of Devuan, systemd is a special case, indeed, the reason
> for Devuan's existance, so I think a no brainer, idiot lite solution
> would be appropriate for systemd, so that even those, like me, who know
> nothing but "apt-get install great_sounding_app" get warned.

printf '\n\nPackage: libsystemd*\nPin: origin *\nPin-Priority: -1\n' \
    >> /etc/apt/preferences

printf '\n\nPackage: systemd\nPin: origin *\nPin-Priority: -1\n' \
    >> /etc/apt/preferences

You're welcome.

Isaac Dunham