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Gnome-keyring is a poorly documented, DE specific solution that will rope in libdbus abnd a dbus service as dependencies. There are few circumstances where gnome-keyring is the answer.

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> Gnome-keyring is a poorly documented, DE specific solution

It hasn't been GNOME-specific for around 5 years.

Quoting https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libsecret:

"libsecret is a library for storing and retrieving passwords and other secrets. It communicates with the "Secret Service" using DBus. gnome-keyring and ksecretservice are both implementations of a Secret Service.

libsecret replaces libgnome-keyring."

I didn't say gnome specific, I said DE specific. There's only two implementations and both of them can only be trusted to work correctly if you run them in combination with their respective desktop environment.

My big complaint with gnome-keyring is that it took over (replaced) GPG agent functionality but didn't bother implementing all of it (it doesn't support smart cards, for example).

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