> But you get to force upstream authors and distribution developers who would like to be able to use something else? Sure. How is any upstream developer force

> But you get to force upstream authors and distribution developers who would like to be able to use something else? Sure. How is any upstream developer forced to rely on systemd? How is any distribution developer forced to rely on systemd? The only people who are forced to use it are people (like me) who aren't prepared to put in the work of doing something else.