On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 19:38:14 +0700 Jeroen Diederen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,

In Linux Mint, cinnamon-control-center has a dependency on accountsservice.

apt show cinnamon-control-center

Package: cinnamon-control-center
Version: 6.6.0+zena
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Maintainer: Linux Mint <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 1.119 kB
Depends: accountsservice, cinnamon-control-center-data (= 6.6.0+zena), cinnamon-desktop-data (>= 4.8), desktop-file-utils, gettext, libcinnamon-control-center1 (= 6.6.0+zena), xdg-utils, libatk1.0-0t64 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libcinnamon-menu-3-0 (>= 2.2.0), libcolord2 (>= 1.4.3), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.23.0), libglib2.0-0t64 (>= 2.79.0), libgtk-3-0t64 (>= 3.21.5), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 232), libmm-glib0 (>= 0.7.991), libnm0 (>= 1.2.0), libnma0 (>= 1.2.0), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.3), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.103), libupower-glib3 (>= 0.99.8), libwacom9 (>= 2.0.0), libx11-6, libxi6 (>= 2:1.2.99.4)
Recommends: cinnamon-l10n, mesa-utils
Suggests: x11-xserver-utils
Homepage: https://www.github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-control-center
Download-Size: 225 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: https://fastly.linuxmint.io zena/backport amd64 Packages
Description: utilities to configure the Cinnamon desktop
  This package contains configuration applets for the Cinnamon desktop,
  allowing to set accessibility configuration, desktop fonts, keyboard
  and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user
  interface properties, screen resolution, and other Cinnamon parameters.

I don't see that same dependency in Debian Forky's cinnamon-control-center.


On another note, I just did a cinnamon desktop installation of daily Forky and accountsservice did indeed not get installed. The only related packages I see
are gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 and libaccountsservice0.

I checked with
aptitude why accountsservice
and I saw the following:

task-cinnamon-desktop depends on cinnamon-desktop-environment
cinnamon-desktop-environment recommends yelp
yelp depends libwebkitgtk-6.0-4 (>=2.5.3)
libwebkitgtk-6.0-4 recommends xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk suggests accountsservice

I think cinnamon-control-center, like in Linux Mint, should have a dependency on accountsservice to draw the package in.


Does cinnamon-control-center use accountsservice?

If so, yes it should get a dependency (or at least Recommends) on accountsservice.

That said, cinnamon itself seems to use accountsservice, so I think the package should get a direct dependency and not rely on another package to pull this dependency in.

Regards,
Michael



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