Fedora - consolekit

[dan]

Hi All,
Background: About two weeks ago I switched the computer I use the most
over to FC10 with the idea that if it works out ok that over the next
six month or so I'll switch our other 12 computers over from Debian to
Fedora as well.

Given that, after a couple of weeks I've about got the computer the way
I want it. The stuff that I use a lot that Fedora didn't offer I either
compiled or converted debs into rpms with alien. So far so good. I'm
pretty much happy with it.

Now we come to console-kit-daemon (consolekit). Geeze, when I run htop I
get like a 144 processes running and 60 or so of those are
console-kit-daemon.
So I google to find out what the deal is with that. From what I read,
consolekit monitors various users on a system and such and that
eventually (apparently) more Fedora developers are going to make their
programs dependent on consolekit. Am I close so far?

So what I don't really understand is that if consolekit is primarily for
use with multiuser systems, why does Fedora (well, gnome in Fedora) make
200+ other packages dependent on it? I'm not complaining, I just don't
get it. A *lot* of people don't use a multiuser setup. so why doesn't
Fedora make it an option rather than a default?

Can anyone explain this to me, or point out an online source where it's
been discussed previously?

Kind regards,
Dan