[lmm]

> If you look at the architecture, it has got very clear points of encapsulation that is much more structured than the loosey gooesy stuff that came before it.

Then why can't it offer a stable interface that lets me swap out e.g. udev with eudev, like I could before?

That's what makes it monolithic - not the implementation details but the absence of well-defined interfaces between the pieces.

[cbsmith]

> Then why can't it offer a stable interface that lets me swap out e.g. udev with eudev, like I could before?

I'm not sure it can't.... To the extent it _doesn't_, I imagine it is not much of a priority, since eudev is a fork from udev, and is lacking the enhancements to udev the systemd project has been working on.