Bug 500152

Summary:	x11-misc/lightdm should not unconditionally depend on sys-apps/accountsservice
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gino McCarty <onigino>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Markos Chandras (RETIRED) <hwoarang>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ben.c.schubert, dark.shadow, Martin.vGagern
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Changes to lightdm Ebuild

Description Gino McCarty 2014-02-03 05:44:28 UTC

sys-apps/accountsservice requires gnome to function properly, and is not an actual dependency for lightdm.
- It only allows themes to have userlists instead of username dialogs. This is the only functionality it adds to lightdm. 
-It puts an undue burden on "Light" and alternative desktop users to install all gnome dependencies for this single feature.. 

The attached patch makes this optional, but installed by default for people who don't care.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Gino McCarty 2014-02-03 05:45:09 UTC

Created attachment 369406 [details, diff]
Changes to lightdm Ebuild

Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-04-11 23:55:31 UTC

makes sense I guess. I will add it to the next version bump

Comment 3 Small_Penguin 2015-01-19 13:21:27 UTC

*Bump*

Has this been forgotten?

This is an 'enhancement' that is actually needed. Compiling lightdm *without* accountsservice allows to specify users to be hidden from the user list. Otherwise the configuration settings will be ignored, and lightdm shows such users as gitdaemon, pulse,...

Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-01-19 19:54:53 UTC

yes fixed in 1.13.0

Comment 5 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-07-23 16:04:24 UTC

*** Bug 555372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***