It's existence as an alternative for those who want it doesn't bother me so much. It's watching other projects that existed for years without relying on it tac

It's existence as an alternative for those who want it doesn't bother me so much. It's watching other projects that existed for years without relying on it tacking it on as a dependency that got worrisome. It DOESN'T particularly follow the Unix philosophy, but that's okay -- not everything needs to be Unix. At the end of the day, things seem to have washed out over the past few years, and folks who want to run systems without it seem relatively unimpeded at this point (heck, my Bluetooth stack on Slackware 15 worked out of the box). As long as the anti-systemd crowd keeps things constructive with parallel structures, the future seems bright. And if the systemd proliferation brings users and thus big company driver support, so much the better. I just hope it is done in a way that the benefits can be shared in an init-system agnostic sort of way where possible.