[2012-10-16 11:16:04 -0400] David Rosenstrauch: > I haven't been diligently following the mailing list, so perhaps I > missed this. But given the recent "systemd is now the default on > new installations" announcement, I'm wondering: what's the reasons > for Arch making systemd the default going forward? This has been discussed countless times on arch-general and the BBS, not always constructively (hence why the moderation), but there are were some very informative posts, particularly from Tom Gundersen, such as: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530 See also the thread starting there for the "official" discussion: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-August/023389.html -- Gaetan