On 2013-10-23 22:22, Brian May wrote:
This looks like the dependency is kernel/platform dependant: http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome-settings-daemon [1] has: dep: systemd [not hppa, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k, powerpcspe, sh4, sparc64] So doesn't break Gnome where systemd is not supported.
GNOME is also likely not being tested on these other platforms. Kind regards Philipp Kern