Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Unless the elements are so tightly coupled that to change one without the other would not make any sense.

Case in point: cgroup monitoring. init needs to do that by itself, in order to know when a daemon's processes have all died. Please demonstrate that compartmentalizing this feature to another process is an advantage in some way, because I can't think of one.

Maybe merging the dbus and systemd repositories was a mistake, maybe not. I don't know; absent any demonstrated technical reasons why it's a bad idea I continue to assume that there have been sound technical reasons to do it. "Avoid a monolith, designed by a power-hungry <whatever>" is not a technical reason.

But you can still build the dbus stuff without systemd, and you can check out the repository and basically ignore all the systemd stuff, so what's your problem?