this is off topic already but I started testing how to change the init in my gentoo vm. I chrooted into gentoo then eselect profile set # (chose desktop without systemd), then edited make.conf -systemd. Then ran emerge -avuND –with-bdeps=y @worldworld. It gave error for tiff (needed to edit package.use for it) and now its running full world rebuild. Don’t know if this will work but its just an vm..
edit: it didn’t work. There’s blocked packages, many packages require systemd. Need to think 