Doesn’t GNOME already depend on systemd? Kinda… GNOME doesn’t have a formal and well defined policy in place about systemd. The rule of thumb is that GNOME doesn’t strictly depend on systemd for critical desktop functionality, but individual features may break without it. GNOME does strongly depend on logind, systemd’s session and seat management service. GNOME first introduced support for logind in 2011, then in 2015 ConsoleKit support was removed and logind became a requirement. However, login...