[uselessdguy]

Hey, Rich. First of all, thanks for musl libc.

At the moment, yes. We do keep much of the internal systemd architecture in tact, but we do eventually aim on partially decoupling it, or at the very least expanding the breadth of configure prefixes for tuning its behavior. We are a pretty early stage project, after all.

Indeed, the systembsd and systemd-shim projects are working on the D-Bus interface reimplementation part.

Our goal right now is to be a minimal systemd base that can be plugged in interchangeably and have the vast majority of unit options be respected.

There already are systems that offer primitives to reuse systemd units. nosh is one of them, and there also exist scripts that can convert systemd services to SysV initscripts, and even the opposite (dshimv).