As long as it&#x27;s optional for Gnome only as they say, that&#x27;s fine. I just hope other DEs like Xfce don&#x27;t simply rely on this being available like with Consolekit, HAL, D-bus, etc that I now have to run on FreeBSD as well.<p>I&#x27;m perfectly content ignoring Gnome, but if every full desktop environment starts relying on this because it&#x27;s available, then it&#x27;s not really so optional anymore. (and of course, if the alternative is guaranteed to be no major DE running on BSD at all without this, then we similarly have our hand forced. It depends on who would flinch first.)