Bug#726675: gnome-settings-daemon: requires systemd

[Craig Sanders]

it is unlikely that this will ever be fixed.

you are collateral damage in the commercial war between RedHat and
Canonical.

Redhat's weapons are Gnome and systemd.
Ubuntu's weapons are Unity and upstart.

RH is using gnome to force adoption of systemd as a strategy to sideline
ubuntu.

BTW, systemd is militantly linux-kernel only, and a dependence on
systemd is making gnome linux-only - this screws up gnome usability on
non-linux systems, including illumos and derivatives, the *bsd operating
systems, and Debian/kfreebsd.

This is bad news for free software - even if, like me, you have no
interest in running other operating systems the reduction of diversity
in the free software ecosystem can only be destructive and harmful.

the only solution is to purge gnome from your systems (e.g. switch to
lightdm or kdm rather than gdm3).

and switch to xfce (or kde or anything other than gnome - it's the only
way to avoid being caught up in the RH/Canonical commercial war).

craig