Comment Re:Systemd is killing the Debian project. (Score 2) 550
nope, grep can parse other statements too, and you do not need grep to understand the output of ls.
That's the difference, ls and grep are independent tools that can use other tools as you like. Systemd doesn't work so well if you choose to replace any of its subsystems as they tightly depend on each other.
The unix way is to develop a tool that does what you say it will, according to its own rules. It can be more trouble to integrate but the power means you have a lot of reuse potential.
The Windows way (if you like) is to develop a tool that works very well integrated with the other tools, such that it is easy to make them work together but you lose the power to reuse the tools with other systems.
Systemd is going for the 'easy integration' route, but many people think they are over extending themselves into integrating many things that should not be part of an init system (such as logging, process management, console output, and notifications.