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10 days agoMore than that: “its only an init daemon that does not even make use of Linux features”. They all try to work on all posix systems while systemd is Linux-only and uses everything the kernel can offer to make things safer and more reliable.
You do not even need to patch it out. It is basically an extra entry in the user db (think: /etc/passwd). Just don’t fill it in and you are done, just like your location and a ton of other stuff you can put there if you want to.
Nobody can read it outside your system either… it’s a defined place when (not if – not anymore) something wants to store that information. Better have a properly protected defined place ready than have 10 different programs request that info separately and store it all over the place.