What does seahorse do?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:36 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> Is seahorse "obligatory" (i.e, a dependency of ubuntu-desktop) in
> 8.10?

Since 8,04, as I wrote. That is, since Gnome 2.22, when Seahorse was
integrated into the Gnome platform as *the* key manager.


mario at chronic: ~ $ cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
mario at chronic: ~ $ apt-cache rdepends seahorse
seahorse
Reverse Depends:
  ubuntustudio-desktop
  xubuntu-desktop
  ubuntustudio-desktop
  ubuntu-mobile
  gnome-desktop-environment
  gajim
  bzr-gtk
  brdesktop-gnome
  ubuntu-desktop
  seahorse-plugins
  seahorse-plugins
  libcryptui0
  gnupg
mario at chronic: ~ $

I don't think packages.ubuntu.com can do reverse-depends, but see here
for 8.04:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-desktop