> The philosophical reasons being the centralisation of control over a key aspect of Linux to a group of developers that aren't universally trusted? In the cas

> The philosophical reasons being the centralisation of control over a key aspect of Linux to a group of developers that aren't universally trusted? In the case of Gentoo, they already support systemd[1] as an alternative. What I don't entirely understand is, systemd is an umbrella project with many sub-components[2] that are depended upon in many non-init packages now. As far as I can tell, none of the systemd devs care for anything other than Linux support [3], so any packages depending strictly on systemd components are unable to run/build on other systems, or have to now support two+ subsystems. Gentoo provides support for alternative platforms such as OSX and BSD via the Prefix[4] project, so for them to switch to systemd (and its sub-components) as a default would be to make the Prefix project harder to accomplish. Again, I don't know enough about the various components that comprise 'systemd', or how modular they are outside of Linux. If someone can clarify any misconceptions I have, I'd be grateful. [1]: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd [2]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Systemd_components.svg/720px-Systemd_components.svg.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Sys... [3]: http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0020243/Lennart-Poettering-BSD-Isnt-Relevant-Anymore http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/11/07/16/0020243/Lennart-Poett... [4]: https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/ https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/