Hacker News Reader

> However, none of the above choices actually make it possible to do this with a daemon that was not written specifically to interact with systemd!

Et voila, you found your answer. Target systemd, problem solved.

View on HN

... and give up the ability to easily run on any non-systemd system, like BSD, Solaris, OSX, older/embedded Linux distros, and basically any other Unix. Oh, and it's GPL'ed so most of those systems won't use it.

Requiring systemd is like saying every daemon program needs a GUI.

You can't put systemd code behind a compile flag?

Who said anything about requiring systemd? All you have to do is handle it when it's there. It's no different than any other portability concern that has ever existed on any platform ever.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com