This is a losing battle. May as well cut your losses and use a distro that doesn't use Systemd. There is now a predictable pattern of Systemd devs and supporte

This is a losing battle. May as well cut your losses and use a distro that doesn't use Systemd. There is now a predictable pattern of Systemd devs and supporters trying to persuade developers to get more and more functionality to depend on Systemd. It started with Gnome, logind, udev, consolekit and recent attempts to get apps to depend on Systemds dns server show it is a ongoing process. In the end its critical for end users to develop funding models for open source. Without this, accountability will continue to shift away from users to corporates like Redhat and their interests. And users will be forced to accept whatever is thrown their way or move away.