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by tannhaeuser 1695 days ago
Out of interest, are you using Devuan or other Debian distro specifically designed to be systemd-free?
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Not Devuan, normal vanilla Debian (and one Debian-Xen VM host).

There are instructions online for removing systemd; I think it is cause for regret that there isn't an install option and a commandline tool to "just do it". It's not tricky; it's just a nuisance that you have to do it at all.

[Edit] And a debconfig thing. It should be that easy to switch.

[Edit 2] I deserve to be voted down, I realise! I called for a change that I claimed was easy, without offering a patch! I should shut up, and my remarks should be very pale grey.

Is this still relevant?

https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd

I haven't used debian for awhile, and longer without systemd, I don't really know if that section still applies to the latest debian stable.