> I feel like there must have been a lot of bullying to get systemd across so many systems.
I followed the Debian discussions when they debated init changing.
It was not pretty, there was a lot of things, but I don't remember any bullying. It was simply a very long uphill battle from a sort of loose group against the majority of maintainers that wished to stop worrying about 99% of init script problems.
Systemd is not perfect, never was, but it gets shit done, whereas no other project does in this regard. (A lot of people wanted to tackle some parts of what systemd does, but that was late and insufficient.)
And, all in all, there is always room for a systemd2 in Rust, distros would switch to it in a heartbeat, if it would be better.
I followed the Debian discussions when they debated init changing.
It was not pretty, there was a lot of things, but I don't remember any bullying. It was simply a very long uphill battle from a sort of loose group against the majority of maintainers that wished to stop worrying about 99% of init script problems.
Systemd is not perfect, never was, but it gets shit done, whereas no other project does in this regard. (A lot of people wanted to tackle some parts of what systemd does, but that was late and insufficient.)
And, all in all, there is always room for a systemd2 in Rust, distros would switch to it in a heartbeat, if it would be better.