A system without systemd?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:12:24 -0600, Keith wrote:
>Can you live without the following software packages
>installed, or not working on your system?

This list of packages is irrelevant. The essential package "init" for
example is listed, but it doesn't contain something that is important,
even not the init link against whatsoever, but the package "udev" isn't
listed, while it is essential with or without being a direct
dependency. While one or the other dependency could be satisfied by
another init system and probably faking that systemd is installed by
e.g. an empty dummy package, other essential software might need a
fork, for example see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Eudev .

However, the output of "sudo apt -s purge systemd" is moot.