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
Created attachment 369406 [details, diff] Changes to lightdm Ebuild
makes sense I guess. I will add it to the next version bump
*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,...
yes fixed in 1.13.0
*** Bug 555372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***