Bullseye release notes / install instructions for alternative inits

[tito]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 13:35:47 +0100
Matthew Vernon <matthew at debian.org> wrote:

> On 01/08/2021 13:27, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > On 23/07/2021 15:29, Mark Hindley wrote:
> >> Martin and Matthew,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:10:48PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >>>> The best time to perform the switch is after the "Selecting and
> >>>> installing software" stage [link to 6.3.6.2]; though note that the
> >>>> default GNOME desktop environment will only work with systemd - so if
> >>>> you want a desktop environment installed, then deselect GNOME and
> >>>> select another (Xfce, for example, works well without systemd).
> >>>
> >>> GNOME does not work at all? I thought it would be working in Devuan, but
> >>> maybe I am mistaken.
> >>
> >> Gnome certainly works in Devuan and I thought it did in Debian as well.
> > 
> > gdm3 depends on libpam-systemd; I lazily assumed other bits of GNOME did 
> > too (but haven't checked); I'd welcome correction on the matter.
> 
> My lowest-possible-effort test of "apt-get install gnome" on my 
> XFCE/bullseye/sysvinit system fails because something is depending on 
> libsystemd0 (which libelogind0 conflicts with).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthew
> 

Hi,
I suspect it is gdm3, try pinning to avoid installation.

Ciao,
Tito