[djsumdog]

I don't feel they should. These are arguments I haven't heard before either and I'm glad to see more of these weird cases laid out.

I run Gentoo (OpenRC) and Void (Runit) on my own systems, and although I do like both of them, I find the total lack of alternatives to the systemd ecosystem troubling.

As a package maintainer, I do like being able to create rpms/deb files and only needing one standardized init script, so there is are a few advantages to systemd, but not many. It's complexity makes it difficult to create drop in replacements (work has stopped on uselessd and others).

There needs to be more community support for distros like Void and real alternatives. Articles like this encourage that kind of thinking.

[lisivka]

Why not to write generator of init scripts from Systemd unit files? Unit files are well documented for typical options and are easy to write.

[JdeBP]

Ahem!

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/worked-example.html

* http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/200281/5132

* https://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/ms...

[microcolonel]

Where systemd is complex, it's because the use case is complex. If you know so much about these use cases, and you think systemd is unnecessarily complex, why don't you do it yourself and see where that takes you?