Hi,

golinux via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> On 2025-10-07 21:16, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I just installed excaliber rc-1 tonight. I'm going to rip it out
>> tomorrow.  I was miffed to find all sorts of systemd garbage all
>> over it.  It also installed and runs network-manager out of the
>> box. I was a little miffed about that, too, and not just because I
>> can't find the network-manager.conf file. I found all the systemd
>> garbage when I went digging for the network-manager.conf.
>> not good.
>> Thanks,
>> Curtis
>>
>
> Curtis . . .
>
> It has always been thus. Please read this post on D1G posted early on
> in Devuan's development:
>
> "Why are systemd files present in Devuan?"
> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=1925
>
> If you would like to be crowned the "Devuan Systemd Janitor" and take
> on removing all those useless files, please contact the Devuan Dev
> Team on our development channels.

For a Devuan Systemd Janitor on steroids, you could use dpkg's
path-exclude option.

echo "path-exclude=*systemd*" > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/exclude-systemd.cfg
find / -name '*systemd*' -delete

The dpkg manual page warns about the option and advises to use it with
caution so if that breaks your system, you get to keep the pieces.

For something similar I did to put devuan container images I built in the
distant past on a diet, see

https://gitlab.com/paddy-hack/devuan/-/blob/master/scripts-slim/tweak-dpkg-config?ref_type=heads

> And please correct and forgive me if I have misunderstood your
> complaint.
>
> golinux

Hope this enlightens,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen