Adrian Vovk, a GNOME contributor and member of its release
team, recently announced
in a blog post that GNOME would be adding new dependencies on systemd, and soon. The idea is to shed
GNOME’s homegrown service manager in favor of using systemd, and to
improve GNOME’s ability to run concurrent user sessions. However, the
move is also going to throw a spanner in the works for the BSDs and
Linux distributions without systemd when the changes take effect in
the GNOME 49 release that is set for September.
