Joel Roth via Dng - 07.07.19, 23:39:
> Noting here a solution from the debian-user mailing list.
>
> I'm aware there's a team working for init system flexibility
> on Debian and send my kudos and beer vouchers to them :-)
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/06/msg00961.html
>
>
> ==== quoted message follow ====
>
> > On Jun 27, 2019, at 12:42 AM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@???>
wrote:
> >> On Jun 25, 2019, at 11:20 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@???>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Seems this would work as well, with less collateral damage:
> >>
> >> apt install -y sysvinit-core elogind
> >> apt --purge autoremove
> >
> > This works great and, as noted, is far more elegant.
[…]
> A warning about all of these solutions: They will remove the package,
> network-manager. Sometimes this may rewrite the

Not here.

I am still running Debian with elogind and Plasma and Network Manager
just fine. As I did not bother yet to switch to Devuan, but in order to
replace systemd-udevd by eudev I likely will at some point in time.

I do not remember whether I did it exactly like above, but I am sure
that in general Network Manager can be run without Systemd just fine.

Anyway, I posted it all here and/or on devuan-dev and its still
available in the archives.

--
Martin