Bug#674259: gnome-control-center accountsservice dependency

[Peter]

My point about battery life was that having lots of dependencies and
services running is generally bad for battery life.  Obviously one
service being scheduled to poll occasionally "thanks to dbus" doesn't
make a difference.  But the service is definitely unnecessary.

I guess I should report this instead to gnome or freedesktop?  Its not
really a debian thing.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> On 24.05.2012 07:51, Peter wrote:
>> Package: gnome-control-center
>> Version: 1:3.2.2-3+b1
>> Severity: minor
>>
>> Please remove the accountsservice dependency or make it recommended,
>> at least have an option to turn it off.  I just saw this in testing. I
>> have a laptop which means I try to keep things a bit lean.  Already
>> linux drains battery life way faster than windows.
>>
>> There is no way that an extra daemon is needed just to wrap useradd
>> and usermod.  And why would someone want to pass this stuff over
>> dbus?!?
>
> Thanks to D-Bus, this service is only activated when it is used, so your
> point about battery life does not hold.
>
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