[ale] Debian fork thoughts?

David Millians millia at panix.com
Wed Dec 3 12:16:45 EST 2014


On 12/1/2014 1:17 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> Brief disclaimer beforehand... I'm a Debian Developer and have been part
> of the project since 2001.

Thank you for your work!

> <snip>
 > is going to be a derivative that is almost 99% original to upstream
> just simply stripping out the entire systemd system which already can be
> removed and use SysV init with a shim for systemd that allows those
> aspects that have hard-coded dependencies on systemd (namely GNOME comes
> to mind as the biggest reason requiring systemd).

This is the first I've heard of this. You're saying that, for those of 
us with servers and thus no need for Gnome, we can still use sysV init?

If that's the case, there's been a whole bunch of hooraw about nothing.



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