I get the impression that you think I am trying to argue, if so: it is not the case, I'm trying to understand and at the same time to explain. I often explain t

I get the impression that you think I am trying to argue, if so: it is not the case, I'm trying to understand and at the same time to explain. I often explain the same thing various times because I follow lots of mailing list and try to give explanations where I can. So in case my answer is sometimes long is not regarding starting an argument, it is because I gave similar explanations various times before and I want to be thorough. I've followed eudev quite a bit. The initial email and following discussion was very confusing. The LWN link you give is based on various misunderstandings. Eventually 3 eudev developers gave the reasoning I gave before. That's why I find it quite interesting. Those misunderstandings and assumptions is is also why I try to explain things like "portability" as good as possible: To avoid anyone getting bad impressions. E.g. if you'd just read any news site casually you'd assume we're totally pushing systemd, while it is far more nuanced. Also, I am not the author of the blog / blogpost!