Is it just me or is there a surge of alternate init activity in Debian currently?

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025, Andrew Bower wrote:

> Indeed! I'm aware of this for most installations but this is avoidable
> extra weight for an ultra light weight embedded system/container/VM

You don’t use Debian for these.

You use Debian for the integration it provides.

It’s a good choice for *some* containerised things, as well as
a containerised thing can even be called good-ish (hahahaha…),
but not for *all* of them.

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
[...] if maybe ext3fs wasn't a better pick, or jfs, or maybe reiserfs, oh but
what about xfs, and if only i had waited until reiser4 was ready... in the be-
ginning, there was ffs, and in the middle, there was ffs, and at the end, there
was still ffs, and the sys admins knew it was good. :)  -- Ted Unangst über *fs