It probably just happened that way. To note, systemd isn't as popular/required for Gentoo as most people I know still use openrc. There is even a set of hacks (

It probably just happened that way. To note, systemd isn't as popular/required for Gentoo as most people I know still use openrc. There is even a set of hacks (that I very thankfully use!) to use Gnome 3 on a non-systemd system[0]. [0] https://github.com/dantrell/gentoo-project-gnome-without-systemd https://github.com/dantrell/gentoo-project-gnome-without-sys...