[scrupulusalbion]

Its nice to see this sort of explanation. I just wish this had come out earlier, like when Arch was in the process of switching over to Systemd.

>Lack of confiurability. It was impossible to change the behaviour of initscripts in a way that would survive system updates.

I wonder how often updates (dist-upgrades or package updates?) actually break initscripts. Further, would it make a system no longer boot fully (e.g. to the GUI login prompt)?

[digi_owl]

Most sane package manager i have encountered will place a copy of the new script or config file next to an existing one of there is some level of mismatch.

And rarely would you not get a system to boot to some kind of login prompt with traditional init. If the fear of not getting a GUI is what is driving he adoption of systemd, then i really worry about future generations of admins...