On 17 Aug 2012 02:05, "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In all of the discussion about systemd, all anyone should care about is: > > (1) Does systemd provide *needed* additional capabilities that are not > currently available; > > (2) What are they? > > (3) What are the disadvantages of the switch? > > (4) Do the advantages significantly outweigh the disadvantages, taking into > consideration the time, talent and energy required to implement the change (for > both the developers and end-users)? 1-3 have already been discussed, and number 4 has an obvious answer for the only person that matters, the one doing the work. I'm not sure why the time, talent, and energy of the end-user is even a factor. If it was we wouldn't be using any new software at all...