On 2025-10-09 15:09, Steve Litt wrote:
> golinux via Dng said on Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:37:08 -0500
>
>> 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.
>
> If these files are truly useless, and if a list of these useless files
> exists, it would be pretty easy to move them to a tarball (in case for
> some reason one is needed later) and that would get rid of the useless
> files.
>

My limited understanding is that it is a bit like the green slime that
just keeps replicating and coming down the pipes. You are one of the
most likely candidates who could come up with a solution. Care to dazzle
us with you expertise and sleight of hand? :D

/me high-fives Steve Litt!

Cheers,
golinux

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