[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

[Tom Gundersen]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> "Nobody is forcing systemd on anybody."
>
> Wasn't it this what was always said by the devs in all those long
> threads about systemd? And what are you doing now? Isn't this not
> forcing it on everybody?

No one were forcing systemd on anybody. This packaging change still
does not force systemd on anybody. It does "force" you to have the
binaries installed, but it does not force you to actually boot with
it.

Since the above quoted statement was made, a decision was taken to
move to systemd by default, so it clearly no longer applies. While you
are still free to use initscripts, at some point other packages are
likely to depend on you booting with systemd (NetworkManager, polkit,
Gnome, etc.).

HTH,

Tom