Sorry, but systemd is really forced upon the users throats, all the time, more and more.
Just a few weeks ago, in some systems that worked perfectly without systemd, I have upgraded Xorg server, but the new version would no longer run, because it has acquired a hard dependence upon systemd.
As a workaround, I had to run the additional elogind daemon, which does not provide any useful function, except of keeping happy the developer who has added this extra systemd dependency.
Such events have happened for years, every few months, with more and more dependencies of systemd added to various applications, which after that do not gain any useful feature but they force their users who do not want systemd to waste time for developing workarounds that satisfy the new undesirable systemd dependencies.
Just a few weeks ago, in some systems that worked perfectly without systemd, I have upgraded Xorg server, but the new version would no longer run, because it has acquired a hard dependence upon systemd.
As a workaround, I had to run the additional elogind daemon, which does not provide any useful function, except of keeping happy the developer who has added this extra systemd dependency.
Such events have happened for years, every few months, with more and more dependencies of systemd added to various applications, which after that do not gain any useful feature but they force their users who do not want systemd to waste time for developing workarounds that satisfy the new undesirable systemd dependencies.