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I'm kind of behind on systemd, can someone explain why it has DNS and NTP at all? Shouldn't it just use whatever the rest of the computer uses?


Systemd is kind of like the Borg. It slowly assimilates daemons until it eventually replaces all system level functionality. Its next target is home directories[1], then who knows what else.

[1] https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/


You're confusing systemd (the replacement for init) with systemd (the replacement for init, dns, syslog, login/getty, grub, your home directory, etc).

Both are called systemd but one is actually only a single module of the other.




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