On 6 January 2015 at 20:04, Joel Roth <joelz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
There are about a dozen packages that depend on
systemd,
such as dbus, pulse-audio, avahi-daemon, udisk. Once these bottom-level
packages are freed, the whole software stack is liberated,
with the exception of the Gnome desktop environment.
None of the packages you mention depend on systemd as it is, so maybe
you just need to move to a "liberated" distro.