What does seahorse do?

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-11-27, Mario Vukelic wrote:

>> It's rather a fundamental security thing to 'just happen' behind your
>> back!
>
> So? There are many fundamental security things that "just happen" behind
> your back. I mean, shadow passwords don't exactly advertise their
> actions all over the place, either. And who in their right mind would
> not want such things to happen automagically?

Is seahorse "obligatory" (i.e, a dependency of ubuntu-desktop) in
8.10?