On Fri, 7 Dec 2018, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> > I have already hit issues in Devuan that have been inherited from
> > Debian. The initramfs\initrd should (and used to) do one thing and do it
> > well. It is now so convolutely complex you can do away with the root
> > filesystem altogether.
>
> At that point we could go that route consequently and introduce a
> strict separation between an init-OS and an main-OS, maybe even move
> to some container environment. That idea needs some deeper thoughts ...
>

I can't figure out whether you are being ironic/sarcastic here (with no
smiley or similar). But I remember reading stuff by Pottering about that
being exactly what systemd is meant to be!