edbarx wrote:With an open and free to edit and compile source, solutions can be found to avoid using systemd, but like anything this requires some time. In my case, I am trying to use sysvinit on SID even when systemd is pushed down my throat. I want to see what the results will be before I count myself as defeated.
I for one really appreciate what you are doing, I really like Debian and will hate having to abandon Debhat. I'm waiting for the results of your very honourable endeavours with bated breath.
This next comment is in general to everyone...virusd is
not like choosing which browser or text editor to use, this is a blob that's becoming
mandatory, a blob that
takes control of your system, written by an arrogant (and mouthy by all accounts) little prick. I for one don't like "negative billing" (making a comparison here), negative billing is when a service provider forces something on you without your knowledge (or some tiny fine-print only an ant could read) and makes you pay for it
before you have a chance to cancel it or say no, this is what virusd is turning out to be, a negative option package install, inevitably causing a post OS install
surgical removal of virusd, that's just ridiculous, no, beyond ridiculous. I don't want to run Debhat, I want to run Debian.
What I don't get is there's a gazillion meta-packages for other things, why not make meta-packages for sysv and virusd, if virusd is in the default install, you simply uninstall the virusd meta-package which could be made to trigger the install of the sysv meta-package, so you're not left without an init system before the next boot (disaster). But that's just too simple and utopic, people and their egos are messed up, logical solutions and reasoning has gone out the window, they went down the road and got hit by a bus, a kdbus, lol.