I suppose that's fair. I haven't gone to the effort of turfing HAL from my system (it gets pulled in for webcamd, not sure if I can get around that yet) and HAL pulls in PolicyKit. So I had it in there anyways.
Cheers, DMK On Monday, December 7, 2020 11:39:34 A.M. EST Steve Wills wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/7/20 10:53 AM, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently ran into similar issues. I did some looking around, and > > discovered that KDE/KF5 was trying to use DBUS to get account > > information, and failing. I installed sysutils/accountsservice and I find > > a massive difference in how it runs. For one thing, startup is much > > quicker. For another, my CHARSET and LANG settings from /etc/login.conf > > are respected. > > > > I'm beginning to think there should be a dependency on sysutils/ > > accountsservice for x11/kde5. > > Improved startup time and use of login.conf does sound good, but > accountsservice requires polkit. Personally, I'm not a fan of polkit, > because of it's suid pkexec linked with larger libs and because it > doesn't seem to be that actively maintained. > > Steve
