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Varlink exists only to be extremely simple.

The Linux ecosystem was using D-Bus for basically everything. But there was some need for IPC in early boot, before any D-Bus brokers were started.

Varlink was the answer, as a simple direct (vs DBus's broker mediated) IPC.



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