On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:35:18AM -0700, Fred wrote:
> Hi,
> Crossgrading looks like a huge can of worms. The wiki page seems to imply
> that systemd must be installed. If I wanted systemd I would have stayed on
> Debian.

As of jessie, I believe that the Debian recomended way to install a
nonsystemd system was to use the installer and then afterward remove
systemd.

Apparently the people writing the installer had forgotten to provide a
question which init system was to be used until it was too late to put it
into the installer and be confident they hadn't introduced critical bugs.
(they didn't consider the presence of systemd to be a bug)

So they came up with this workaround.

-- hendrik