+* oneshot services which do not remain: 'exited' instead of 'dead'?
+ it should be visible in 'systemctl' that they have been run
+
+* systemd.log_level=debug should overwrite 'quiet' ?
+
+* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
+
+* have a simple syslog bridge providing /dev/log and forward messages
+ to /dev/kmsg. at the moment the real syslog can be started, the bridge
+ is stopped and the open /dev/log fd to the real syslog. that way we
+ don't lose any early log message, and simple systems have full syslog
+ support in the kernel ringbuffer, without any syslog service or disk
+ access
+