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This article pretty conclusively convinced me that systemd is actually good, if these are the strongest arguments against it. Most of the dependency-related stuff (process order related, cyclicstuff) seems eminently fixable. I found his arguments about dependency management having to be linearizable highly unconvincing.

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> I found his arguments about dependency management having to be linearizable highly unconvincing.

What? Can you expand on this? To me it rang as a well-reasoned, and pretty devastating, critique.

These are the strongest argument against its core service management logic; those that explain why it is not better than Upstart (or daemontools or s6+s6-rc …)

And systemd causes problems not only by this, but also by its bundling of similarly mediocre or worse other components.

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