&gt; Clearly this is the same as what systemd does? Do we conclude from this that OpenBSD feels &quot;not modular&quot;, since it has an NTP implementation in the same repository as its init, or is it only bad if systemd does it?<p>Well, you CAN replace OpenNTPD in OpenBSD (and you should if you need e.g. autokey), and it will just work™.<p>The issue with systemd is certainly not the bundling, it&#x27;s the tight coupling which makes it a lot less modular than it claims to be.