Making it possible to uninstall initscripts / insserv and facilities

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.11.2015 um 19:37 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
> e/ Patch insserv to look for a flag file/setting somewhere in
> /etc/insserv{,.conf.d}, which causes it to treat Required-* as Should*
> (ie, conffile-version of --force). Then initscripts could ship such a
> configuration, thus demoting dependencies only when initscripts is not
> installed.

The flag file could be /sbin/init pointing to /lib/systemd/systemd. At
least I don't see a specific benefit of introducing (yet) another config
file.

So we are mostly back to idea b/ with the only difference that you would
not ship a hard-coded list of which packages to demote to Should, but
would do it for all packages.

Michael
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