One of the examples of 'pants on fire' syndrome I mentioned is udev. Other examples are equally easy to search and examine. "After udev is merged into the syst

One of the examples of 'pants on fire' syndrome I mentioned is udev. Other examples are equally easy to search and examine. "After udev is merged into the systemd tree you can still build it for usage outside of systemd systems, and we will support these builds officially. In fact, we will be supporting this for a long time" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/17392 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/17392 "...this will effectively also mean that we will not support non-systemd systems with udev anymore starting at that point. Gentoo folks, this is your wakeup call." http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May... So when Lennart or somebody in the systemd team claims something to be optional you can bet everything it is not or soon won't be.