elogind plan

[Adam Borowski]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 10:07:57AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> In article <20181203091130.GM17160 at hindley.org.uk> you write:
> >On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:42:26PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> >> There's also the matter of upgrades: there's a need to be able to switch
> >> from systemd to sysvinit+elogind, which you can't currently do (systemd's
> >> prerm refuses to remove while it's pid 1).
> >
> >The impression I had received was that it might be difficult to persuade
> >systemd's maintainers to remove that restriction. Do you know if anyone has
> >actually tried asking them?
> 
> Do our dependencies now prevent having both systemd and sysvinit-core
> installed at once? When I was doing testing with early versions
> of our elogind packaging I started with a systemd setup and
> switched it over with:
>   apt install sysvinit-core
>   reboot (which will bring the system back with sysvinit as pid 1)
>   apt remove systemd
>   (then install elogind)

Currently, you need to remove most of GUI programs as dependencies will be
broken between step 1 and step 4.


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