Comment by danudey
3 months ago
Do you have examples of what you suggest, 'a single program which today depends on systemd' which would make sense to decouple from systemd?
The amount of work that a project would require over the long-term would be pretty substantial, so I assume that there are a lot of these things which you would suggest fixing over time to be rid of systemd, but I'm not certain what the end benefit of this work would be. Interested to hear more.
Gentoo has a little list¹, along with suggestions for modifications. Instead of modifying the programs, one could experiment with a shim library and leave the program code unmodified to see if that's a viable path towards portability. The end benefit would be portability to systems lacking systemd proper.
(Now, the importance of portability is a separate question. If you want systemd to "eat the world" it's even a negative value.)
1: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hard_dependencies_on_systemd
This kills me when, of course all these apps were already portable for decades and only just recently all now need a "viable path towards portability".