I'm not going to join this pro/anti systemd discussion as it is pointless at this point, but,
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 04:02:23PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
for example, until i discovered that angband.pl actively maintains systemd-less debian packages for xorg, udev, pulseaudio and several critical pre-systemd packages (including consolekit), i was forced to make an extremely risky *MANUAL* removal of systemd. that included REMOVING udev entirely and MANUALLY maintaining entries in /dev (!) i also had to add a hundred entries into /etc/modules - some of which i could not determine so had to actually not have access to critical hardware for a considerable amount of time.
Hang on, is this for the images for the EOMA68? I figure you don't have systemd there because the kernel is < 3.12. But no udev? Or is this for an unrelated system?