Debian voted on the issue, and there was a very lengthy discussion. I don't think the Gnome dependency was the linchpin, at all. Debian developers wanted to get

Debian voted on the issue, and there was a very lengthy discussion. I don't think the Gnome dependency was the linchpin, at all. Debian developers wanted to get rid of thousands of silent but deadly shell scripts shipped in every package doing service management (rc scripts), they wanted nice cgroup integration, and that's it. At least this was my impression.