Gentoo Without systemd - Gentoo Wiki
wiki.gentoo.org › wiki › Gentoo_Without_systemda gentoo system installed from a sysvinit + openrc stage3 tarball (i.e. a stage3-*.tar.xz or stage3-*.tar.bz2 file that does not contain 'systemd' in the name) will have sys-apps/openrc already installed, so virtual/service-manager will be satisfied by that package, and systemd shouldn't get installed unless some other package pulls it as a …