Seconded
I completely back the idea to avoid a fork when ever possible. It's possible
to maintain systemd and just let it to do the init stuff. Syslog and
other daemons can be implemented independently, as for example in a classic
Unix way. SuSE Linux Enterprise 12 has gone this way just now. Please, Debian
folks, consider it! It's worth the struggle.
Thanks for your efforts!
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André Kiepe
Systems Engineer & Training Consultant