Can you have, say, KDE on Gentoo without systemd? "Without systemd"
means *all* of systemd, like systemd-login0 etc..
LOL, If I were the kinda guy who used KDE, I'd *love* systemd. I went
to the dictionary and looked up the phrase "monolithic entanglement",
and they had an illustration of KDE's logo. A couple years ago
Troubleshooters.Com made the policy decision to delete all KDE
libraries from all our computers.
But in answer to your question, my official answer is "I don't know."
Now I'll give you a guess: KDE functioned, um, as well as it can ever
function, long before the invention of systemd, so I'd assume it still
could function that way on a systemd-less system.
And this KDE discussion brings into sharp focus my real gripe about
systemd: I can use any distro I want in a KDE-free configuration. No
big deal: if I'm willing to do without k3b, I can do it. But to get a
systemd-free configuration, I need to change distros or change to
OpenBSD.
By the way, if you wonder why I'm being so hard on KDE, these three
articles explain:
http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm#_editors_desk