Bug#756023: init: Move "Essential: yes" from init to init-system-helpers

[Michael Biebl]

Am 19.05.2016 um 18:29 schrieb Ansgar Burchardt:
> On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 18:27 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Could we add the Important: yes field to "init"? Having that makes a
>> lot of sense to me.
> 
> To init or to its dependencies (systemd-sysv, sysvinit-core)?  The
> latter would not only warn when uninstalling all init systems, but also
> when switching between them (perhaps not by intention).

To "init" I guess. I don't think we should pester users with that
message if they deliberately switch to an alternative.
The main objective of having Important:yes in init would be to avoid
"accidentally" uninstalling /sbin/init and rendering your system unbootable.

Michael


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