Comment 5 for bug 817718

Chris, the Unity support already is a run-time complexity. See http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~usb-creator-hackers/usb-creator/trunk/view/head:/usbcreator/frontends/gtk/unitysupport.py where usb-creator-gtk checks if libunity is installed or not. This is standard practice because this kind of patch could go upstream .

While Ubuntu does not officially support running Gnome without Unity (for example, ubuntu-desktop doesn't support that & there aren't active developers using this configuration), we don't need to arbitrarily make it impossible.