[arch-dev-public] [announcement draft] systemd is now the default on new installations

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> "The base group now contains the systemd-sysvcompat package. This means
> that all new installations will boot with systemd by default.
>
> This change does not affect existing installations. For the time being,
> the initscripts and sysvinit packages remain available from our
> repositories.

However, individual packages may now start relying on the system being
booted with systemd.

Please refer to the wiki for how to transition an existing
installation to systemd."