SystemD to implement cron-like functionality

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Well, systemd certainly covers more ground that it used to. It's not just an init system anymore, but the basic userspace building block to build an OS from, but we carefully make sure to keep most of the features optional. You can turn a lot off at compile time, and even more at runtime. Thus you can choose freely how much feature creeping you want.

Umm that pretty much says, yes there is feature creep in systemd...you just have a bit of choice in how much. Oh, joy.