[ale] Remove systemd network handling

[Alex Carver]

The beef is that it's handling something I don't need handled.  Any
distribution using systemd and then just letting the default networking
fall to systemd is letting that be handled.

I just want to assign the IP to the NIC and be done, I don't need the
extra features.  Technically this is Raspian so it's not fully built
around systemd, it's also running headless so there are no hard
dependencies on systemd.  But the key thing is that I don't want
something that somehow systemd interprets as an instruction to drop and
restart the interface which is what seems to be happening.  So pulling
out networking from its control should fix that.

On 2021-09-19 18:10, Solomon Peachy via Ale wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 03:55:44PM -0700, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
>> The device is already statically defined in /etc/network/interfaces, I'm
>> not using DHCP on this particular machine, and there's no need to be
>> looking for hotplug events because the instruments and computer are all
>> bolted together in the same chassis.
> 
> It sounds like your beef isn't with systemd specifically, but how the 
> underlying distribution is [mis-]handling things...
> 
> You may want to contact distribution-specific channels about that, 
> because generic advice here probably won't be terribly helpful.
> 
>> As an aside, are there any good explanations for how to remove user
>> management and login control from systemd as well?  I don't need seats
>> or any of the fancy features on this machine, that's just overhead for
>> no good value so I'd rather to back to plain logins.
> 
> If you're trying to eliminate the use of systemd's networking stuff from 
> a distribution built around using systemd's networking stuff, you'll 
> probably find it much less perilous (and work) to just switch to a 
> different distribution altogether.
> 
> There are plenty of other distributions out there, with and without 
> systemd, though I should note that most systemd-based distros don't use 
> systemd's networking features.
> 
>  - Solomon
> 
> 
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