[ncw33]

Why post a link to that here? systemd is not perfect, but it's a well-designed and competent piece of work that makes things better for users, developers, and admins. It's been adopted by most distributions now, which must indicate merit. As a developer and user, on balance I'm delighted by the Debian Foundation's decision.

[alaroldai]

Wide adoption isn't an indication of merit - look at the wide adoption of Windows for an example.

Anyway, for all the developer convenience and technical merit systemd has, it doesn't support an open OS environment - it restricts freedom in favour of convenience, which is precisely the opposite of what many users prefer Linux for.