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by edoceo 1734 days ago
Gentoo and others exist for far more reasons than just avoiding systemd.
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denton-scratch 1734 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 1734 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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