[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#645540: "Essential" package conflict between sysvinit and systemd-sysv

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] James 

| For those of us running testing/Wheezy or unstable/Sid with systemd,
| _every_single_time_ there is an upgrade - which can be approximately
| _every_single_day_ - something must be done to override the installation of
| sysvinit and the removal of systemd-sysv.  The workarounds suggested at Debian
| Wiki systemd,

I'd recommend just booting with init=/bin/systemd, tbh.  It's what I (as
the systemd maintainer) do on my own systems.

| 	Package: systemd-sysv
| 	Provides: init
| 	Conflicts: init
| 	Replaces: init
| 	Essential

systemd-sysvinit can't be essential since that'd force it onto all
systems.

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