On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 03:32:42PM +0200, Thomas B?chler wrote: > And you don't want systemd because you are sure it won't do what > sysvinit can, even though you didn't try it. > I think the complaint here is that the switch itself is a problem. I think he made it rather clear that he's not criticizing systemd itself but the notion of forcing a switch. I've been bellowing to local linux user groups and friends that sysvinit needs to go for years but I understand the general resistance: Every change -- even the especially good and worthy ones -- requires effort. For some, that's too much. > Arch's policy on systemd vs. initscripts has not even been discussed > among Arch developers yet... This is really all that needed to be said.