content: Systemd dependencies are creeping up into userland packages, so much that they will not be installable unless you have systemd. This is by design , so everybody will have systemd  Clearly NSA ha  ffa  d an issue, Linux was not soo spyware friendly, had to do something. Systemd is the perfect answer, covers all essential services, it is monolothing, it is a binary blob of code, you cannot disable or "adjust" it. What is more likely.... that a bunch of "programmers" got together to write  a replacement for an init system (that was working) for free and for fun OR that NSA paid them to actually do it ?