Re:Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
by sirn on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @01:37AM
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Many packages that depends on systemd actually depends on the logind part. Most of time you could just s/systemd/elogind/ and it will work. However for a big systemd-based distro such as Debian, that means they need to provide support for _both_ systemd and elogind for all packages, which is not an easy task (elogind basically conflicts with systemd) and not worth doing without also committing to support other init systems.
What I understand from this topic(about the ilogind) is that you can't even create such an alternative because the packages are depending hard on systemd. So you will be forced in future to re-create systemd features and bugs similar how wine does it for Windows API.