Yes, that's been one of Poettering's long-term goals [1] [2], and what Fedora SilverBlue and OSTree are trying to achieve. systemd features like the ability to

Yes, that's been one of Poettering's long-term goals [1] [2], and what Fedora SilverBlue and OSTree are trying to achieve. systemd features like the ability to create users via installable files [3] are geared towards this goal. [1]: http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html [2]: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linu... [3]: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sysusers.d.html https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sysusers.d....