Gnome's dependency on logind came about because there originally was a dependency on a different library that one person had written, had pretty much stopped wo

Gnome's dependency on logind came about because there originally was a dependency on a different library that one person had written, had pretty much stopped working on, and nobody wanted to take on maintaining it or adding it to Gnome itself. The dependency no longer exists because some people took logind from systemd, made it a standalone package and called it elogind lol, and now you can use that instead of logind.