In a small embedded Linux Busybox based system, by default inetd is being started at boot but inetd.conf has every service commented out as none of them are being used.
Does this mean we can just remove the call to start inetd or could it be required by some system process down the line?
There's no need to run inetd unless it's being used.
If you were really cautious you could look for uncommented non-blank lines in /etc/inetd.conf and only start the daemon if one or more was found. This implies that you would be changing your system configuration at some point in the future. If you're not doing that then you can consider the situation right now, and simply discard inetd.
