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Just don’t want it forced on me and by its nature it becomes a hard dependency over time, thus, it does. I’m not interested in another argument but calling my position “pitchforks” is a bit disengenuous and irritating (which is why I’m replying, off-topic, to you). While I think it has something to offer I would like potentially better alternatives to be able to exist in future, this is not “pitchforks”.
>Just don’t want it forced on me and by its nature it becomes a hard dependency over time, thus, it does. systemd is the choice of basically everyone who builds distros, so of course it's going to be hard to avoid unless you volunteer to do all of that work yourself. When you take work from someone else, that comes with taking on the choices that they make.
What you state is absolutely true, but denying there’s more nuance is not helpful. That’s all I’ll say because this is not a worthwhile conversation to have here.