> The systemd team decided No they did not. Nominally, at least. The systemd people have always maintained that this stuff is up to the people who package sy

> The systemd team decided No they did not. Nominally, at least. The systemd people have always maintained that this stuff is up to the people who package systemd for individual operating systems. It is those latter who decided that (a) there would be one big systemd package and (b) other packages would have dependences from it. They could have decided to package systemd up as multiple packages, instead. In fact, a lot of the Debian Hoo-Hah was over the packaging. * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/debian-systemd-packaging-hoo-hah.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/debian-systemd-packaging-hoo-hah.html This is slightly undermined by the fact that a few of the prominent systemd people are (or have been) the systemd package maintainers for various operating systems, so this is in fact in some cases the same people simply with different hats on their heads.