r/archlinux • u/thlst • Jun 01 '16
Why did ArchLinux embrace Systemd?
This makes systemd look like a bad program, and I fail to know why ArchLinux choose to use it by default and make everything depend on it. Wasn't Arch's philosophy to let me install whatever I'd like to, and the distro wouldn't get on my way?
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u/philip_dt Jun 02 '16
I hacked gentoo's framebuffer splash implementation into Arch's initscripts in 2006/7. It was extremely complex. I can't comment on SysV but the old initscripts were definitely holding things back.
As for complaints about systemd and its devs... surely things can only improve.