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Clearly you have not used systemd and friends much.

It is an ecosystem of daemons that does a lot of things, some of which are guaranteed to surprise you. The specifics of which will vary between releases.

I could easily see some random systemd utility binding a non standard port without anyone taking notice.

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That would be the distro's problem, not systemd. Any of those utilities are going to be optional, the distro has to consciously enable them and ship them in a package for it to make it to you at all. A lot of commenters seem to misunderstand that systemd is not forcing distros to do anything. All they really do is provide a set of tools for distro maintainers to choose from.

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