As annoyed as I am with the situation, I actually have a hard time blaming this entirely on Lennart Poettering. Red Hat pays for this development (as they do w

As annoyed as I am with the situation, I actually have a hard time blaming this entirely on Lennart Poettering. Red Hat pays for this development (as they do with quite a lot of GNOME). How many project managers are going to go and say, "No. You must spend more time to decouple system X from system Y even though it provides us absolutely no value as an organisation." He's doing his job and he's nowhere near the worst lead developer I've ever seen ;-) The main problem is that, as the responder to my comment said, there are not enough outside developers getting in there and fixing the problem. I am included in the list of people who could fix it, but won't because I have other things to do. It doesn't stop me complaining about it, though. I don't think the complaints are counter productive either, if they are aimed in the right place: Red Hat. Blaming Lennart is useless, whether or not it is fair. It's Red Hat's behaviour that needs to change, because if they replaced Lennart tomorrow the new person would have a mandate to do exactly the same thing.