Comment Re:The GPL (Score 1) 469
You've completely missed the weakness of those initscript function library dependencies. In the handful of debian specific scripts I checked, all of them use at most 2 functions. They are all distro managed scripts, so it's not a surprise they all want to use "daemon" -- the most trivial shit in the world to remove.
The issue with systemd is not in how it starts or stops tasks. It is entirely with it's size, complexity, and the cancer-like scope creep of taking over tasks that aren't "starting and stopping" other subsystems.