[telepathy] [Bug 347219] files overlap with gnome account

[Matt Scheirer via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347219

--- Comment #13 from Matt Scheirer <matt.scheirer at gmail.com> ---
The upstream solution does not actually work (it uses libaccounts-glib envars
to set alternative profile directories, but apparmor will deny kaccounts access
to those files, and would require permissions modifications in the Debian
packages) and it breaks accounts-sso intended use (because by design, you
should be placing accounts in /usr/share/accounts from multiple provider
packages, which in theory could be third party).

The best case scenario would be that common providers like google.provider or
twitter.provider would be unified into a shared project between the two groups,
since the actual provider files are extremely similar to one another and could
be unified (if you want the respective files I can upload them here as well,
this is just a pretty quick reference): http://i.imgur.com/z3U67z4.png

The problem on that front is that accounts-sso is seeing very little
development and is effectively in maintenance mode.

Having these packages conflict actually does not break either KDE's Telepathy
or Ubuntu's Empathy - the KDE client will still load Ubuntu providers, and vice
versa. The problem is they provide the same files, and thus should conflict
regardless.

You could be more selective and just make account-plugin-google and
account-plugin-twitter conflict for now, because then regardless of which
packages you have installed google and twitter signon functionality would work.
The KDE package however is not just those provider files - it also includes GUI
dialogs for owncloud and generic services enablement. But then the problem
becomes as KTP adds more services to its online accounts you get additional
conflicts.

Fundamentally though KDE should not be patching their system settings dialogs
because of a package conflict in a single distro that also breaks the Telepathy
standards and introduces what would be one of very few instances of the KDE
desktop imposing system wide environment variables. Either accounts-sso unifies
common provider files in a shared project, or you just make packages providing
the same providers conflict with one another.

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