>>>>> "Simon" == Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes:
Simon> I think this is partly down to whether the systemd maintainers (both Simon> upstream and downstream) are willing to support this use, or whether Simon> they would prefer non-systemd-booted systems to use a reimplementation Simon> whose maintainers are responsible for supporting it. Do we know which Simon> of those is true? Simon> I seem to remember a systemd upstream developer being asked during Simon> recent discussions whether they were willing to guarantee that Simon> systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-sysusers will continue to work when used on Simon> non-systemd-booted systems (not just sysvinit, but also chroots, Docker, Simon> etc.), but I'm afraid I've lost track of what the answer Simon> was. I seem to recall it was surprisingly convincing that this will continue to work.