It seems that Gnome 3 is pulling out some systemd dependencies. I have just noticed it and tried to remove the whole gnome meta package but some components are still there. [mar1n3r0@localhost user]$ whereis systemd systemd: /usr/lib/systemd [mar1n3r0@localhost user]$ cd /usr/lib/systemd/ [mar1n3r0@localhost systemd]$ ls -al total 136 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 14:29 . drwxr-xr-x 149 root root 126976 Oct 15 23:10 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 14:29 user [mar1n3r0@localhost systemd]$ cd user/ [mar1n3r0@localhost user]$ ls -al total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 13 14:29 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 13 14:29 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 Oct 14 10:50 gvfs-afc-volume-monitor.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123 Oct 14 10:49 gvfs-daemon.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 183 Oct 14 10:50 gvfs-goa-volume-monitor.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 184 Oct 14 10:50 gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 Oct 14 10:49 gvfs-metadata.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Oct 14 10:50 gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor.service -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181 Oct 14 10:50 gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service [mar1n3r0@localhost user]$