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by denton-scratch 1736 days ago
> But some people seem to have an almost irrational hatred for it, far beyond what a mere software package calls for.

That could be because somehow it's managed to become the default init on all mainstream distros, leaving few good options for those who would prefer to avoid it. I don't want to use a distro whose main raison-d'ètre is avoiding systemd.
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edoceo 1736 days ago
Gentoo and others exist for far more reasons than just avoiding systemd.
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denton-scratch 1735 days ago
Hmm, I thought Gentoo defaulted to systemd. Rather, I learn that it's an 'alternative'.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd

Looks like you have to do a bit of tinkering to ensure it stays free of systemd. Same with Debian, which I use with SysV init. But it took a couple of hours tweaking to switch - perhaps one of the other inits might have been easier to switch to.

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edoceo 1735 days ago
My Gentoos have been OpenRC since forever. And maintaining that requires just one USE flag.

I've never tried to move debian to not-systemd.

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