Freatures requiring libsecret-0.18

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue Jun 10 22:35:37 EDT 2025



> On Jun 10, 2025, at 14:56, mes at lazo.ca wrote:
> 
> Hi I've updating a Gentoo install and the new 5.11 ebuild has
> reorganized the USE flags. I've been using gnucash since the early, well
> the oldest data file is for 2001 but that may have been created a few
> years after. Anyway I have never used gnome-keyring or libsecret in that
> time. Could you say what purpose that library provides? Is it for
> aqbanking? I just deleted the dependency from the build file but it
> would be better for people to have the ability to turn on or off by
> referring to the function they expect to have.

Not AQBanking, that uses GnuTLS, GCrypt, and XMLSec. GnuCash uses Gnome Keyring to secure saved passwords for the MySQL and Postgresql backends.

Regards,
John Ralls



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