Actually it did, well technically it was userland. Pulseaudio was forced on me because Firefox and a few others need it. PAM was forced on me because some app

Actually it did, well technically it was userland. Pulseaudio was forced on me because Firefox and a few others need it. PAM was forced on me because some applications needing it, I believe that was due to kde. Until v15, slackware had no need for pam or pulseaudio Now many of us are waiting until systemd is forced on us :(