A system without systemd?

[Keith]

On 11/17/21 12:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 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.
>

You do know what the word "essential" means, right?

But, go ahead and try the command without the "-s" option and then hit Y
where prompted. See what happens.

--
Keith