Heh that is like people arguing that people should not drink petrol, and then you trying to counter that by saying how good petrol is for cars.
Systemd sounds great, more distros should use it or something like it. But why would something like gnome shell want to depend on it? Systemd starts programs at startup, gnome shell is a gui. I could almost understand something like GDM needing a dependency, (but would still consider such a dependency poor engineering and against the unix philosophy)
A decision like this, and other decisions gnome has been making lately will reduce its popularity.
Systemd sounds great, more distros should use it or something like it. But why would something like gnome shell want to depend on it? Systemd starts programs at startup, gnome shell is a gui. I could almost understand something like GDM needing a dependency, (but would still consider such a dependency poor engineering and against the unix philosophy)
A decision like this, and other decisions gnome has been making lately will reduce its popularity.