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Controversy is nothing new when it comes to systemd. Many people find this new Linux init system to be inherently flawed in most ways, yet it is still gaining traction with major distros like Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora, and soon both Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux. The adoption of systemd for Debian 8 "Jessie" has been particularly fraught with strife and animosity.
Some have described the systemd adoption process as having been a "coup", while others are vowing to stick with Debian 7 as long as possible before moving to another distro. Others are so upset by what they see as a complete betrayal of the Debian and open source communities that there is serious discussion about forking Debian. Regardless of one's stance toward systemd, it cannot be argued that it has become one of the most divisive and disruptive changes in the long history of the Debian project, threatening to destroy both the project and the community that has built up around it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 28 2014, @07:49PM
My system doesn't use any of that except udev for one.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Monday September 29 2014, @02:15AM
Irrelevant unless you've somehow convinced the would-be forkers to support a distro for one user. Those things provide functionality that's considered standard now, and are needed for most of the desktop environments (not window managers) in some form. Leaving out all the pieces that depend on systemd without providing alternatives means problems providing MATE, Cinnamon, KDE, possibly even Xfce. Power and removable storage management are used a lot by DEs. Even WindowMaker depends on upower now by way of the wmbattery dock-app.
Even without udev (which is part of systemd now), systemd has managed to get its hooks into some of the most important parts of making a system user-friendly. Systemd's already reached the point where completely avoiding it will require a lot of work, forking, and maintaining your own versions unless you can convince the various upstreams to use alternatives.
Unless someone is going to make a distro that only provides console apps and a tiling window manager, they're going to have to face these problems. It's not pretty, it's getting worse by the day, and people predicted it early on so there was plenty of warning that went unheeded.