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by makomk 4252 days ago
It's a good weapon against Red Hat's proprietary Unix competitors like Solaris - by tying as many things as possible to systemd they ensure it can't run on non-Linux systems. Same reason the proprietary Unices had their own oddball service management frameworks, APIs, etc. Also, RHEL was still using the old, grotty sysvinit-based system where you had to manually specify the order in which services were started and stopped; almost anything's an improvement on that. (All the other major distros had migrated away from it ages ago.)