Quoting richard lucassen (mailinglists@???):

> No, what I meant is that systemd is running startup processes in
> parallel. Starting ISC ntpd under sysv init *and* having a broken
> network connection causes the boot process to take a very long time.

That might well be a point, then. Thanks for clarifying! I actually
have no significant amount of experience with systemd problems, and
seriously didn't understand what you were saying at first. (My
apologies.)