> Again, this is only for software where the developers have explicitly decided to hard-code in dependencies to systemd, which is not likely going to be everyon

> Again, this is only for software where the developers have explicitly decided to hard-code in dependencies to systemd, which is not likely going to be everyone. I'd put good money on this getting harder and harder going forward though. At some point it will be everyone, or at least practically everyone, because every Linux distribution with any mindshare will have been using systemd for years, and hard-coding systemd will be not a lot different than hard-coding calls to the C standard library. Also, shims? How god-awfully inelegant can we be? "You don't like systemd? Cool. You can run something else (as long as it looks, feels, and behaves exactly like systemd)." Look, I'm not a religious zealot. Systemd is what they want me to run; systemd is what I'm running. I can live with ugly software. It's not the end of the world. But oh dear god is it ugly.