For many of us, our biggest beef with systemd is that it has no planned limitations to its scope. (This has already been discussed to death so I will try to be brief.) Let's look at the actual current code size. I just cloned the systemd Github repo (git clone https://github.com/systemd/systemd.git) and this is what I got:

    $ wc `find . \( -name \*.c -o -name \*.h \) -print`
    [ ... ]
            37       89     1100 ./src/xdg-autostart-generator/xdg-autostart-service.h
    677446  2077830 23953433 total

(Simple wc includes blank lines and comment lines and we could be fancier but wc will do.) Now compare the same thing with OpenRC (git clone https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc):

   $ wc `find . \( -name \*.c -o -name \*.h \) -print`
    [ ... ]
      56    242   2209 ./src/rc/_usage.h
   17263  53243 419162 total

So 677,446 lines vs. 17,263 lines.

Lennart just keeps adding to systemd and refuses to say when he will finally stop adding to it. How many skilled humans on this planet are available to audit those 600k+ lines of systemd code and are actually auditing it? (And how many work for intelligence agencies?)