On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:54:31 +0100 Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
Having read through their discussions, it seems that the main two things they would like to change is to be able to build udev without building systemd (this does of course not change the resulting code, but saves time if you have to build everything locally) and to make the dependency on kmod optional (this might make sense if you don't have module support in your kernel, but I think the difference would not be measurable in any way).
Odd, my take was that the main goal was trying to bring back a separate /usr. I did post to the arch-general mailing a while back about why the FSF is wrong on there being no need for a seperate /usr and putting everything in there without static core binaries in a smaller root is less reliable. I now wonder if that is because it was broken anyway and lennart gave a seemingly reasonable justification that may reduce the complaints. The other reason I noted was less dependency on upstream decisions or breakages and this one may have been the debian list but keeping dbus off servers.