[IshKebab]

> There are multiple libc implementations

You could make another SystemD implementation if you really wanted. The point is that there are plenty of APIs - even ones with a single implementation - that nobody bats an eye about programs having a "hard dependency" on, but suddenly for SystemD it's apparently a big issue?

It's bullshit technical excuses to hide the real reasons people object to SystemD, which are more embarrassing.

[lmm]

> You could make another SystemD implementation if you really wanted.

No you can't, because they don't offer stable interfaces as a matter of deliberate policy.

[IshKebab]

That seems to be completely untrue: https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/

[lmm]

That's changed then, now that the competition has been killed off; at the time certainly logind and the cgroup integration had no stable interface.