> I thought the big concern is that it isn't hard yet.
And once it is a hard dependency then Red Hat will be in control of strategy for the dominant init system.
That's what concerns me, not the immediate technical challenges which can overcome. But those who are busy now patching the broken bits won't have influence over the direction of systemd in the future.
We'll all go where one billion-dollar enterprise-oriented vendor leads us.
One part is aimed at cloud via containers and sandboxes (soon to come to desktop as well via Gnome).
The other is aimed at securing "seats" via logind. This because the earlier consolekit had a limited reach because it didn't have a partner sitting as pid 1.
And the military is after all the origin of the concept "trusted computing".
I am not saying that there is a willed conspiracy. But with Red Hat being a for profit organization, anything that bring in the cash in the short run will be given priority...
And once it is a hard dependency then Red Hat will be in control of strategy for the dominant init system.
That's what concerns me, not the immediate technical challenges which can overcome. But those who are busy now patching the broken bits won't have influence over the direction of systemd in the future.
We'll all go where one billion-dollar enterprise-oriented vendor leads us.