Right, so the issues that he seems to have - I see the main issue is that some software links directly against systemd libraries. That is indeed not very good.

Right, so the issues that he seems to have - I see the main issue is that some software links directly against systemd libraries. That is indeed not very good. However, his issues about the difficulties of swapping over packages - well, he has his own distro and he's actually worked out after a bit how to replace it with System V. Linking libraries is not very good, but that's surely more of an issue with developers making bad dependency choices? or perhaps they find it convenient. And he worked out how to get around it with a shim anyway, which obviously increases his workload, but then again he's the one who wants to diverge from what all the other distros are doing! Of course, there is the other point in that it could be argued that the SystemV system doesn't have features that are provided by systemd... which would tend to indicate that perhaps it's lacking in a few areas. He also belabours the point of parallelisation. I cannot understand why he just doesn't change the before or after directives in the unit config files. That's really not much different to the pain of reordering services in the existing System V-based systems! So I'm really not convinced :-) Anyway, that was rather a fun talk, I liked how he was troubleshooting the issue, more power to him that he got his system in the way he likes it.