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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:17:30 +0000 (+0000)
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diff --git a/Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn b/Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn
index f18ad25..90afddc 100644
--- a/Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn
+++ b/Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ shepherd for Debian, to the point that shepherd runs now on my main hosts. Below
 
 ## Installing shepherd on Debian Bookworm
 
+The following instructions are safe, they won't delete your existing init system, just renaming some binaries like /sbin/{halt,reboot,poweroff}, see below. 
+
 ### Installing guile-3.0
 
 Bookworm packages guile-3.0.8. This may work, but my tests have been done with a more recent version, 
@@ -94,6 +96,8 @@ You install with:
 
 ### Installing shepherd-0.10.2
 
+This is the real init engine. Care has been taken with the Debian alternatives system to not clobber  	your original /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot and /sbin/poweroff by renaming them as /sbin/halt.orig-init, /sbin/reboot.orig-init and /sbin/poweroff.orig-init. 
+ 
 The packages are below:
 
 amd64: