On 07/26/2016 12:37 PM, Rick Moen wrote:

> It _was_ indeed an unnecessary build dependency.

Precisely my point. A point which could be made about systemd in
general: A lot of unnecessary.


> agree that it's 'problematic' in the sense that I'd rather not have it
> on my systems, but it's not of particular importance.

On systems where security and stability are important, needless
dependencies and pointless software expose a broader attack surface. On
server systems, it's considered best practice to install the minimal
amount of software needed for the running services, and no more.

Historically speaking, most Linux distros easily strip-down this way.
Systemd seems well on it's way to reverse that. I would say that is most
certainly of "particular importance"