GNOME 3.8 does NOT depend on logind. That is optional. See https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logindsystemd-thoughts/ https://blogs.gnome.org

GNOME 3.8 does NOT depend on logind. That is optional. See https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logindsystemd-thoughts/ https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logind... for a bit more detail. E.g. some features rely on systemd, so if you want those features you better run systemd. Gentoo got this wrong and they prefer just depending on systemd to make life easier for them. However, I only expect GNOME to require logind (thus systemd) once we remove X support and only support Wayland. No idea how far off that is. For 3.12 the intention is to support both.