On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:04:57 +0200
Arnt Karlsen <arnt@???> wrote:

> > > Well, the official policy, insofar as there is one, appears to be
> > > that Devuan is about choice. Therefore, it should make available
> > > (1) the choice to do without systemd and (2) the choice to use
> > > systemd.
> >
> > The choice exists already: the user can either use systemd running
> > Debian, or not use it running Devuan.
>
> ..what devuan does not support, is the ability to offer a newbie
> the option to "try another init system" without having to reinstall
> everything after finding pain with systemd onboard.

Given that systemd is no longer (if it ever was) an init system, but an operating system.

Which rules out switching to or from systemd without a complete reinstall.

Anyroads all this is moot until Devuan becomes a mainstream distribution, instead of being the domain of us geeks.

Cheers,

Ron.
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