Nobody in gentoo wants systemd. it&#x27;s there in the handbook, and one step specifically adds two special flags when mounting disks, in order to shut systemd up. But you have to click another link in the handbook to install systemd, because it&#x27;s <i>not default</i>, and only a few of the default profiles use systemd. many specifically avoid it. If you ask how to install systemd in #gentoo, the first question is usually &quot;why?&quot;<p>Let&#x27;s put it this way:<p>there are a few of us (including myself) in #gentoo with a file called &quot;FuckLennartPoettering&quot; residing within &#x2F;etc&#x2F;portage&#x2F;package.mask&#x2F;. in this file, you will find:<p><pre><code>  sys-apps&#x2F;systemd
  sys-fs&#x2F;udev
  net-misc&#x2F;networkmanager
</code></pre>
Some of us have <i>switched distributions</i> because our &quot;choice&quot; has been limited to Gentoo, in order to customize poettering and freedesktop.org&#x27;s poisonous attack on the GPL and GNU out of our system. I&#x27;ve personally set up JACK, WPA_GUI, and eudev&#x2F;OpenRC on all my corporate systems (running KDE Plasma 5.5 and Frameworks 5.18) so I can avoid the pain that comes from NetworkManager, PulseAudio and systemd. My life is better for it.