HuangLao wrote:And if someone installs a program that has systemd as a dependency then what?
AFAIUI, antiX has a special
nosystemd repository
[1] that holds versions of packages that normally depend on systemd but no longer do.
And I would note that it is also impossible to install systemd in Alpine Linux because that distribution is based on musl libc and systemd has a hard dependency on GNU's bloated libc variant; the same is true of Void's musl release.
Here's a scrot of my new, freshly-installed Alpine Linux system to keep this thread at least vaguely on-topic:
^ 35MiB used at a full graphical desktop, how impressive is that? #nonemoreminimal
@anticapitalista: thank you for your kind words but unfortunately I can't install antiX at the moment because I don't have any free partitions and the installer doesn't seem to support btrfs subvolumes, sadly.
I tried the live version though and I
love it, what a fantastic system