[conspire] (forw) Re: In which I document moving easily to OpenRC on Debian Jessie

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 01:57:19 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
Subject: Re: In which I document moving easily to OpenRC on Debian Jessie
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

Quoting Steve Litt (slitt at troubleshooters.com):

> You really, really, REALLY need to create a link to your document from
> http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Other_useful_sites .

Done.

Thank you again.  FWIW, I have given
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian/openrc-conversion.html thorough
revision.

Most particularly:


1.  The list of problem packages was wrong, having both erroneous
inclusions (lighttpd, etc. -- which does NOT have a problem) and
erroneous omissions.  

The major losses on Debian 8 Jessie with non-default inits are these DEs
as a _whole_:  GNOME, MATE, Cinnamon, KDE, and (technically now-defunct)
Razor-qt.  Most individual apps from those DEs would remain installable,
just not the big metapackages of each.  Also annoying is hplip, but
fortunately the parts of that metapackage of primary interest,
printer-driver-hpcups and printer-driver-hpijs, remain installable with
any init.

And some people expect NetworkManager to work outside GNOME, but its
tangled dependencies sink it in this case.


2.  Added section 'Overcoming Dependency Obstacles'.


3.  Extensively footnoted.


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