On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 11:57 AM tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> in bookworm you cannot remove systemd even if you try very hard
> with dpkg --force-all etc. unless you delete it by hand.
>

You can't do that in bullseye either unless you remove the directory which
the systemd pre-remove script uses to check if it is running as pid 1 or
remove that test from the script but that's all you need to do to be able
to uninstall systemd with apt or dpkg and I bet IT'S NO DIFFERENT IN
BOOKWORM.