Comment 3 for bug 63566

Thanks for your report.

In fact noflushd conflicts with laptop-mode-tools which does the same thing ( hard drive spin down ) and is installed by default. In Hardy, the dependencies have been relaxed a bit and you can install noflushd without uninstalling the whole gnome desktop (but only power management features :( )

However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.