Comment 175 for bug 390508

@Holger - one of the points that had been brought up before is that yes, an individual can change the daemon or use the PPA, but what about those who make programs for redistribution (i.e. through Canonical). If you use the standard prerequisite of notify-osd than a new user will have a broken program because they're using the stock Ubuntu version, not the PPA version. If you choose to use a different daemon instead of notify-osd, then everything in your OS gets changed to the old daemon, and that will likely break other programs. So things left as they are now, new users will end up in a situation where they have unmeetable dependency issues, and they'll just say "oh, well, I guess I won't use this program, it hasn't been developed enough to where it's useable, and blame the third party developer instead of the OS dev team