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Re:Devuan – Debian Without Systemd by zx8080 on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:03PM (#46864836)
For kernel, anyone is able to change flags and recompile and run it in a few mins. It is possible and well documented.

It's very much not the same situation for systemd.

Re:Devuan – Debian Without Systemd by 112233 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:25AM (#46867688)
So your point is distros provide dedicated tooling for simple recompiling of kernel (that is different from other distro packages), but do not have dedicated tooling for systemd? Fair point, but does not address the kernel being orders of magnitude bigger monolith than systemd.

Say you disabled LSM, rebuilt, now all stuff that requires Selinux does not work. Now what?