pm-utils is unmaintained (last release was 2.5 years ago), buggy and has no real use in a systemd world, since suspend, hibernate and powersave are handled by the kernel, systemd and power managers. Despite that, modern upower still brings it in as a dependency, as it is used in the following places in src/linux/up-backend.c (taken from <a href="https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-October/019472.html">here</a>): - up_backend_supports_sleep_state (line 371) calls /usr/bin/pm-is-supported to determine if suspend or hibernate are available on the system. upower uses this to reply to dbus call on org.freedesktop.UPower.CanSuspend or .CanHibernate. Without pm-utils, org.freedesktop.UPower.CanSuspend or .CanHibernate always return false. This call could be replaced by a simple "grep -q mem /sys/power/state" or "grep -q disk /sys/power/state", as nowadays everyone expects the kernel to report whether the system is able to suspend to ram/disk in the above file. - up_backend_get_powersave_command (line 627) calls /usr/sbin/pm-powersave to apply powersaving adjustments. The default pm-powersave quirks are obsolete today, and if one still needs such functionality there are already tons of other implementations (in all of logind, acpid, laptop-mode-tools, the KDE and GNOME power managers, etc.). So this should be dropped entirely. If these changes are made, and pm-utils is dropped at least for HAVE_SYSTEMD, then we could get rid of an useless dependency in our systems, and simplify our stack a bit more. So, what do you say?