+## Debian Jessie with Mate, SysV init and *consolekit*
+
+*mate-power-manager* may not be installed on your host (it's mostly a laptop thing).
+In that case, you can skip that section.
+
+Exploring the packages dependencies in
+[aptitude](https://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude) gives you the following
+alternative set of packages dependencies:
+
+[[!img dep-consolekit.png size=600x]]
+
+where package *consolekit* replaces *systemd* at several
+places. Notice that it is not possible to change/suppress the
+dependency of *udisks2* and *policykit-1*.
+
+So let's go to change to the above figure by installing *consolekit* [^3],
+as a first step to limit your systemd exposure.
+
+[^3]: In the process of installing *consolekit*, you may have lost (or
+not) the ability to resume/suspend from your Mate desktop; the
+conditions under which it happens are not clear for me at the
+moment. But continuing until the end what I suggest in this article
+will recover eventually that functionality.
+