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by kevin_b_er 1127 days ago
The motivation is because systemd is compelling them to change it. Systemd decides how Debian may operate, and decides how users, processes, and files work, not the Debian Technical Committee.
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It explicitly says in that link that systemd doesn’t need it and it’s beneficial to non-systemd distros.
That was then, and systemd is mandating it this year.
FDO and systemd(et al) breaking things for everyone else as usual.