How would it not fit to PPAs?Sarge-in charge introduced it into this thread, and I responded because I'm tired of the anti-systemd crowd always dropping in some negative comments about systemd, regardless what the topic is.
It is a package just like many other packages, and as far as I am aware, there are PPA repositories so I am sure there are also ones with different systemd variants.
add-apt-repository ppa:some/ppa
This is correct and something I also don't understand - if you don't want systemd then you can switch to other distributions.if Systemd is a dealbreaker for anyone, then the obvious and logical solution is to move to something without Systemd. It's pure math. Because the battle is lost in Debian. So it's not that people can not disagree with me, but it serves no purpose to continue to fight a lost battle. At some time people need to accept that Systemd is the default in Debian, and make their choices based on that fact. The fight is over.
There are still some variants without systemd.
There is however had one thing that the debian crowd should keep in mind - you don't offer an alternative to systemd. The alternatives I have seen are huge workarounds.
Linux is about choice. Debian is not. And this was different ~10 years ago - I learned the Linux way on a debian system without the xorg server.
I wouldn't want to have to learn the intricacies of an ever growing system of complexity.