start of kde5 changes env var LANG

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

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