> No, I fully understand the point you try to make, but there are
> other points here that are quite interesting:
> a) if we will not be able to cut  the umbilical cord  that ties us to systemd
>     they will be able to grind us down by attrition in medium term
>     by changing every release that little bit that put exponential extra work
>     on the shoulders of init-freedom developers or "give me  just another init"
>     developers.
> b) how can the cut be achieved:
>      1) using systemd service files: no, we are in the same trap as before.
>      2) collecting init scripts: maybe, but it restricts the range of developers
>           because some distros don't use sysvinit but a different init.
>      3) creating a collection of service files that could be sourced by every
>            init system out there (even systemd)  can give you the critical mass
>            of developers you would need  to port the over 1000 (if I recall correctly)
>            init scripts to orphan-init-scripts and init freedom choice would be
>            broadened  to other init systems.