Rich Freeman wrote: > In the future it might be much harder to run Gnome on Gentoo on an OSX > kernel, etc.
Yes, but if the upstream that is Gnome decides to start depending on systemd features then that's their decision, and the place to discuss if it's good or bad (more important, the place to change it!) would be within the Gnome project. I guess Gentoo will always continue to offer the best of upstream. OTOH, if upstream goes and make some change that means a regression for Gentoo users, then they deserve bug report floods from their users! :) //Peter