On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:03:46 -0700
William Morder <doctor_contendo@...> wrote:

> 
> On the whole, Devuan runs much faster than Debian, and also my system
> doesn't hang. I started having these and other problems, and returned for
> the moment to Debian Jessie, which runs okay, but hangs a lot, and when I
> try to reboot seems to get permanently stuck on some stuff called rpcbind
> and watchdog. (Also I note that systemd is always doing something, don't
> know what.) 
> 
> I am contemplating some kind of FrankenDebian hack (or rather,
> FrankenDevuan). I seem to recall that somebody mentioned that sysvinit
> could be installed, and systemd purged, on a Debian system. The do
> upgrades from the Debian repositories, but keep sysvinit and avoid the
> systemd problems. 
> 

This depend on what level you want to purge systemd. If it is not for
ideological reasons and you are ok with having all sysytemd libraries in
system, just want sysvinit as pid 1, then you just need to install
sysvinit-core and uninstall systemd-sysv. 


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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)