Hi Matthew, thanks for your bug report. I'm not very fond of the proposed
solution, because it would mean that one cannot have a workstation with both
KDE and Unity installed. And I guess it's not uncommon to have some households
with a shared computer, where some family members use KDE and some others use
Unity.
Given that people working on kaccounts are already solving the problem (by
moving the files into another location, and use environment variables to ensure
that libaccounts-glib recognizes the files), what else is left to do?
If there are some common files that can be shared between the two
implementations, we could create an account-plugins-common package,
which could be used by both. If the maintainers of kaccounts-providers
think that this is the case, let them comment here.
** Changed in: account-plugins (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540135
Title:
Make this metapackage conflict with kaccounts-providers
Status in account-plugins package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Anyone that tries to install Kubuntu-meta, or from Kubuntu tries to
install Ubuntu-desktop, will hit conflicts with accounts-sso providers
in /usr/share/accounts/providers (and possibly in service files in the
future). As a result, many automatic bugs are being generated on both
packages relating to this conflict in both directions, below are the
most popular ones for each:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/account-plugins/+bug/1539988
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kaccounts-providers/+bug/1489507
kaccounts-providers is imported from Debian directly without
repackaging and Debian does not package the Ubuntu account-plugins
anywhere. Upstream KDE is being forced to break accounts-sso standards
and impose systemwide envvars to work around that this package should
conflict with KDE's: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347219
Either Ubuntu / Kubuntu should be amending the Debian package to make
it conflict with these plugin packages when importing it, or the
psmteam should make this package conflict with kaccounts-providers.
The later would be less work, since account-plugins is only packaged
in Ubuntu for Unity.
This change is necessary in Wily and beyond since those are the
releases shipping kaccounts-providers.
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