The base group now contains thesystemd-sysvcompat package. This means that all new installations will boot with systemd by default.

As some packages still lack native systemd units, users can install theinitscripts package and use theDAEMONS array in/etc/rc.conf to start services using the legacy rc.d scripts.

This change does not affect existing installations. For the time being, theinitscripts andsysvinit packages remain available from our repositories. However, individual packages may now start relying on the system beingbooted with systemd.

Please refer tothe wiki for how to transition an existing installation to systemd.