Matthew GarrettHaving the core infrastructure for Linux distros be written with a coherent set of design goals instead of being 200 independent projects that can only interoperate via shell scripts parsing and piping output is good, actually
keithp@mjg59 itym 200 projects in a trenchcoat.
My minor involvement in the Debian TC on this topic was certainly enlightening. There is much to dislike about systemd, but even back then it was dramatically better in so many important ways than any of the alternatives.