The removal of rc.conf was the final step, but they had been dismantling rc.conf piece by piece for years prior, even before systemd was released. When I first

The removal of rc.conf was the final step, but they had been dismantling rc.conf piece by piece for years prior, even before systemd was released. When I first used Arch in 2006, rc.conf held a lot of configuration. From what I understand, it held even more configuration options prior to that. Since that time and until the removal of rc.conf, there was a steady removal of features from rc.conf.