The benefit of Talos isn't low binary count but that _can_ reduce the amount of maintenance required.
The benefit is declarative API driven management. You spend less time automating a system to a desired state in a similar vein Kubernetes provides a declarative API.
What does any of this have to do with my question? You just restated a fact, that busybox is a binary with a lot of symlinks, but why? So what? Yes, also the sky is blue and water is wet. It's like you didn't read the comment you responded to. It wasn't even about the benefit of Talos.
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Busybox is only 1 binary symlinked hundreds of times
Yes, and?
(They and we all know that. They said as much theirself right in the comment.)
The benefit of Talos isn't low binary count but that _can_ reduce the amount of maintenance required.
The benefit is declarative API driven management. You spend less time automating a system to a desired state in a similar vein Kubernetes provides a declarative API.
What does any of this have to do with my question? You just restated a fact, that busybox is a binary with a lot of symlinks, but why? So what? Yes, also the sky is blue and water is wet. It's like you didn't read the comment you responded to. It wasn't even about the benefit of Talos.