Poettering: Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems

So now that there is infrastructure to make declarative system users possible, work has to be done to get packaging policy updated to first allow this to be used and then to make it the preferred way to do things.

As the blog says, distro policy in both rpm and deb camps might stand in the way of using this feature right now in official distro packaging. So there's probably going to be a little bit of heartburn around updating the packaging workflows and best practices. Hopefully not too much heartburn as I think the benefits are pretty obvious.

-jef