[vertex-four]

> Sysvinit is not adequate anymore (and I don't think you would disagree with that). Systemd was a solution that someone came up with, and was able to get a number of influential groups to agree to standardize on that solution.

Absolutely. I'm just sad that the people behind the solution are making it harder and harder to replace that solution for people who'd like to, and anybody who sees the issue with that is labelled a "troll" or a "hater".

On the other hand, at least you can parse systemd unit files to convert them into whatever (nosh has a utility to do that). I think that's going to be a standard well after the Linux community diversifies from systemd. It's a fairly solid format.