Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

Posted Nov 12, 2019 17:01 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity by ale2018
Parent article: Debian reconsiders init-system diversity

The very existence of Devuan as a separate project, rather than the people involved in Devuan working to ensure that you can continue to replace systemd with a.n.other init system in a standard Debian install (complete with appropriate tweaks to d-i so that you can choose to never run systemd on your Debian install) was a sign that Devuan as a whole was not able to function inside Debian - they needed a separate project to do what they wanted to do.

I'm not surprised that some Devuan developers were able to function inside Debian, and I'm glad that they could, but I can't help but think that we wouldn't be here today if the Devuan project had just been like-minded Debian Developers working inside Debian to keep non-systemd init systems usable.