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Right now we have a lot of simplicity by not running under systemd. But there are a lot of advantages to doing so; see e.g. https://github.com/coreos/bootupd#questions-and-answers
All of the below applies to us too:
- Why is bootupd a daemon?
It's not, really.  The name was intended to be "bootloader-upDater"
not "bootloader-updater-Daemon"; the choice of a "d" suffix is
in retrospect probably too confusing.
At a technical level, yes there is a socket-activated systemd service
which will spawn a bootupd.service.  However - the service will
very quickly auto exit.  There's nothing long-running, so it's
not really a daemon.
The rationale behind this design is:
- Using a systemd service provides a robust natural "locking"
 mechanism.
- Using a systemd service ensures that critical logging metadata
 always consistently ends up in the systemd journal, not e.g.
 a transient client SSH connection.
- systemd services can easily have sandboxing applied, and
 while bootupd is obviously privileged we can still make use
 of some of this.
- Ultimately, we do probably want a non-CLI API (whether that's
 DBus or Cap'n Proto or varlink or something else). Having
 a socket (without a defined stable API) is preparatory work for that.
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