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Thanks, that makes it easy to understand. Indeed, it doesn't seem very dependent on systemd, which is great. I was aware that the project existed, and for a second thought that Poettering was trying to integrate it directly within systemd somehow whilst making improvements to it. I suppose that's not the case, which is good.
And you're correct, that is probably the easiest way to boot the minimum required resources.
Thanks.