Re: opentmpfiles & opensysusers, and its use in the Debian policy

[Sam Hartman]

My understanding is that systemd's implementation of tmpfiles and
sysusers works even while systemd is not pid 1.
Why do we need multiple implementations for Debian ports where systemd
runs?
I understand why we might want alternatives for kfreebsd and hurd.
But if my understanding that the systemd implementation does not require
systemd be running as pid 1, why do we need alternatives for the glibc
linux ports?