You don&#x27;t have to be a sysadmin to think it&#x27;s a bad idea for pid 1 to have a hard dependency on <i>glibc</i>.<p>It&#x27;s a nightmare. And it&#x27;s incredibly ironic that the solution seems to be that you should migrate to operating systems where the userland and kernel <i>are</i> coupled together.<p>And that&#x27;s the crux of the argument against systemd. Is clean service management more important than portability? Of course not! Linux has always been interesting because it&#x27;s portable, not because it&#x27;s easy or streamlined or standardized.