[Sugar-devel] New dependency on gnome-keyring-daemon (was: Re: [RELEASE] sugar-0.89.5)

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:58, Sascha Silbe
> <sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-2 at silbe.org> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Fri Aug 27 12:21:19 +0200 2010:
>>
>>> * Launch gnome-keyring-daemon from sugar-emulator
>> This means I need to add a new dependency to sugar-jhbuild (as will distro
>> packagers once Sugar 0.90 is released),
>
> If you are using mission-control from distro packages in jhbuild, you
> are most likely to have already an implementation of
> org.freedesktop.Secret installed. If not, we can build
> telepathy-mission-control without the dependency on
> gnome-keyring-daemon.
>
>> adding about 6MB on my XO (and
>> potentially more on other systems).
>
> Hmm, are you using sugar-emulator on your XO?
>
>> What's the rationale for this change?
>> The commit comment is rather sparse.
>
> As Peter already replied, it's used by telepathy-mission-control, but
> is not a hard dependency. So we have some alternatives to not
> requiring it unconditionally:

If you disable gnome-keyring on t-m-c it stores password unencrypted
so its probably not advisable. I'm surprised we don't already need
gnome-keyring for NetworkManager.

Peter