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Except systemd is almost the exact opposite of a monolith. Systemd runs just fine even without systemd-oomd and can probably be disabled by a command as simple as:

> systemctl disable --now systemd-oomd

and doesn’t need to be installed in the first place.

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It's not not-a-monolith just because you can disable or remove an ever increasing number of "tested"/supported functionalities and move further and further away from the supported configuration. This might be OK for personal or toy systems, but it's an immediate pass for anybody who cares about their time.

This comes up every time the systemd discussion happens and it's a little absurd that people need constant reminders that replacing a decent chunk of a base Linux install piecemeal is not viable.

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