[Trisquel-users] Re : Canonical is killing Unity 8, will ship GNOME as default

[lcerf]

As far as know, GNOME Shell only depends on systemd-logind.  logind replaced  
ConsoleKit (GNOME used to depend on it), which stopped being maintained four  
years ago: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit/

systemd is, indeed, not only an init system.  It is an umbrella project that  
replaced many small and poorly integrated projects.  With shared libraries,  
the code has become more robust too.  In fact, logind even removed the  
necessity of "gnome-session" on GNU/Linux.