ofubd8kc: Right, so straight and such superficial comparisons are wrong for this reason. Most of the glibc code isn't used for any given compilation. Similarly

ofubd8kc: Right, so straight and such superficial comparisons are wrong for this reason. Most of the glibc code isn't used for any given compilation. Similarly for systemd, most of the code is being compiled into binaries outside of systemd-init, for things like systemd-networkd. Whether or not systemd-networkd should just be a separate git repo is a good question, but it isn't really relevant. A similar question would be should glibc carry around support for these other systems? Similarly, for systemd-init, the comparison should be, the other init system + all the code for the init scripts + all the code for all the utilities that are called inside the init scripts not counting the program being started. You should be looking at the system as a whole, not just a part of it.