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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I believe @[email protected] 's point was that in OpenWRT and others it makes more sense to have smaller daemons instead of systemd because they aren't using the standard ones you'll usually find under Debian and other Linux distros. They take daemons and slim them down to the point they become smaller than systemd at the cost of features that aren't required on routers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Exactly, although it applies to more systems other than OpenWRT