Disable gnome-power-manager?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Am I the only one who finds the gnome-power-manager to be
fundamentally flawed?  A power daemon needs intrinsically to be
system-global and not specific to a particular login session.
This becomes obvious when there are several logins active at the same time
(on different virtual consoles), typically with different users.

Now, recent versions of the gnome-desktop-environment depend on
gnome-power-management, so it makes it inconvenient to deinstall the
gnome-power-management package.  Is there a way to keep it installed but to
deactivate it?


        Stefan