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by yjftsjthsd-h 1488 days ago
> but I was under the impression that it's just an umbrella for many individual modules/binaries, like journald, etc, and not actually monolithic.

If you can't use journald without systemd, and you can't use systemd without journald, or they really modular in any meaningful sense? I can take a Void Linux system and drop in rsyslog and chronyd and maybe dnsmasq (for DNS caching); I can't take a Void system and add journald and timesyncd and resolved.
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BenjiWiebe 1487 days ago
I'd agree that systemd is modular, but I wouldn't list journald as an example of modularity.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1487 days ago
What would you use as an example of modularity? The closest that most of it gets is that you can disable features and put back the non-systemd alternatives, but I'm not aware of any systemd components that play nice on non-systemd systems except for maybe systemd-boot nee gummiboot (which benefits from running before systemd and therefore is less inclined to depend on it).
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