elogind from what I could tell started as a hack to get gnome to work outside of systemd. It now provides a way to use gnome without systemd but it's definitely

elogind from what I could tell started as a hack to get gnome to work outside of systemd. It now provides a way to use gnome without systemd but it's definitely going against the grain. Your comment implies it's easy for gnome to work without systemd. I remember the early days, it was pretty buggy since gnome essentially was built to run with systemd.