Comment 1 for bug 1650389

I do not believe there is any path to successfully install snapd on a 14.04 desktop system. Only one of systemd and systemd-shim can own the systemd dbus services; systemd doesn't implement them in a way that will work with upstart as pid1, which means we need systemd-shim to own them so that the desktop consumers of the services will function; and it's intrusive surgery to make systemd work without registering them.

This was a known limitation when the SRU went through, and it was allowed because the understood target for snapd on 14.04 was server/cloud environments, not desktops. Has that changed?