On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:48:32 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
But this only concerns the booting itself. As consolekit is unmaintained, polkit will soon depend on systemd. The next Gnome version will require systemd - more to come.
I don't run gnome, but kde is just as bad in this case :(
That said, if you run a machine that does not depend on any of this (like a server), you will probably be able to keep using traditional initscripts for a while.
I am primarily thinking of a few servers I've setup with archlinux. I really don't look forwards to run all the overhead that systemd will bring with it on those machines.. Will try to refrain from further comments now, since I don't want to pollute this list with flames... Thanks in advance for the time I still have left with arch :)