not-systemd status in Bullseye?

[Matthew Vernon]

Hi,

Thanks for your pointers. I thought I'd see what apt wanted to ditch, 
and the answer is quite a lot. Particularly, I need a display manager 
(lightdm seems reasonably good on my older systems), and this is a 
portable, so I don't think I can manage without network-manager :(

Is it going to be possible to keep these or equivalent somehow?

root at matkustaja:/tmp# apt-get --download-only install sysvinit-core elogind

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   acl colord-data cups-client cups-pk-helper dnsmasq-base 
espeak-ng-data exfalso exfat-fuse exfat-utils fonts-dejavu 
fonts-font-awesome fonts-lato fonts-linuxlibertine fonts-noto-core 
fonts-noto-extra fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-sil-gentium
   fonts-sil-gentium-basic gdisk gimp-data gir1.2-atspi-2.0 
gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 gir1.2-notify-0.7 
gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0
   gir1.2-polkit-1.0 gir1.2-secret-1 gir1.2-soup-2.4 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 
gir1.2-wnck-3.0 gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-keyring 
gnome-keyring-pkcs11 gnome-themes-extra gnome-themes-extra-data 
gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gtk2-engines-pixbuf
   gvfs-common gvfs-libs hyphen-en-us libamd2 libao-common libao4 
libappstream4 libatasmart4 libatk-adaptor libaudio2 
libayatana-appindicator3-1 libayatana-indicator3-7 libbabl-0.1-0 
libblas3 libblockdev-crypto2 libblockdev-fs2
   libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-part-err2 libblockdev-part2 
libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-utils2 libblockdev2 libbluetooth3 
libbrlapi0.7 libbsh-java libcamd2 libccolamd2 libcdr-0.1-1 libcholmod3 
libcolamd2 libcolorhug2 libdotconf0
   libept1.5.0 libept1.6.0 libespeak-ng1 libexiv2-27 libfreehand-0.1-1 
libgegl-0.4-0 libgegl-common libgexiv2-2 libgfortran5 libgimp2.0 
libglib2.0-bin libgphoto2-6 libgphoto2-l10n libgphoto2-port12 libgusb2 
libieee1284-3 libjansson4
   libjim0.79 libjs-jquery libjs-modernizr libjs-sphinxdoc 
libjs-underscore liblapack3 libldb2 liblightdm-gobject-1-0 liblouis-data 
liblouis20 libmbim-glib4 libmbim-proxy libmetis5 libmm-glib0 
libmspub-0.1-1 libndp0 libnm0 libnma0
   libntfs-3g883 libpackagekit-glib2-18 libpagemaker-0.0-0 
libpam-gnome-keyring libparted-fs-resize0 libpcaudio0 libplymouth4 
libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpython3.8 libpython3.8-minimal 
libpython3.8-stdlib libqmi-glib5 libqmi-proxy libqxp-0.0-0
   libraw19 libreoffice libreoffice-calc libreoffice-draw 
libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress 
libreoffice-nlpsolver libreoffice-script-provider-bsh 
libreoffice-script-provider-js libreoffice-script-provider-python
   libreoffice-wiki-publisher libsane libsane-common libsdl1.2debian 
libsmbclient libsnmp-base libsnmp35 libsonic0 libspeechd2 libstemmer0d 
libsuitesparseconfig5 libtalloc2 libteamdctl0 libtevent0 libudisks2-0 
libumfpack5 libvisio-0.1-1
   libvolume-key1 libwbclient0 libxapian30 libyaml-0-2 libzmf-0.0-0 
lightdm-gtk-greeter lp-solve mobile-broadband-provider-info modemmanager 
mythes-en-us ntfs-3g orca p11-kit p11-kit-modules python3-brlapi 
python3-cairo python3-cups
   python3-cupshelpers python3-dbus python3-feedparser python3-gi-cairo 
python3-gst-1.0 python3-louis python3-musicbrainzngs python3-mutagen 
python3-pyatspi python3-pyinotify python3-smbc python3-speechd 
python3-talloc quodlibet samba-libs
   sane-utils sound-icons speech-dispatcher 
speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng 
sphinx-rtd-theme-common system-config-printer 
system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-udev update-inetd 
usb-modeswitch
   usb-modeswitch-data xbrlapi xsane xsane-common
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
   initscripts insserv libelogind0 startpar sysv-rc
Suggested packages:
   bootchart2 bootlogd
Recommended packages:
   libpam-elogind policykit-1
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   colord dbus-user-session gvfs gvfs-daemons libnss-systemd 
libpam-systemd libsystemd0 light-locker lightdm network-manager 
network-manager-gnome packagekit packagekit-tools plymouth 
plymouth-label policykit-1 policykit-1-gnome rtkit
   synaptic systemd systemd-sysv task-xfce-desktop udisks2 xiccd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   elogind initscripts insserv libelogind0 startpar sysv-rc sysvinit-core
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 24 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,342 kB of archives.
After this operation, 52.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
root at matkustaja:/tmp# exit

Thanks,

Matthew