RHEL actually was one of the later distros to adopt systemd, so that line of reasoning doesn't make much sense. > Crucial system parts were pr'd into hard depe

RHEL actually was one of the later distros to adopt systemd, so that line of reasoning doesn't make much sense. > Crucial system parts were pr'd into hard dependencies on systemd Can you tell which crucial system parts you mean? The thing with udev was that it's hard/impossible to build without systemd, however there is no dependency on it. The other thing that is brought up in this context is gnome 3, but that was already covered in the interview.