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Remove requirement for keyring for Proton CLI so it can be used on headless servers

Currently the new Proton Drive CLI requires libsecret and a keyring (gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc) which, if you attempt to install on a minimal headless Ubuntu server, pulls in over 50 package dependencies a lot of them for GUI based systems. Since this is a CLI tool it should not require GUI packages to use I suggest providing a "--headless" or "--no-keyring" flag for the CLI which does not depend on libsecrets/keyrings so the CLI can be used on headless servers. There are many other CLI tools that do this securely including rclone which supports Proton Drive.

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  • Phil commented  ·   ·  Report

    i only had to install a keyring handler for proton-drive-cli, would love to drop it

  • Vinny P commented  ·   ·  Report

    These are the packages that are required to install gnome-keyring on a minimal Ubuntu 24.04 headless server.

    The following additional packages will be installed:
    adwaita-icon-theme at-spi2-common at-spi2-core dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service fontconfig gcr gcr4 gnome-keyring-pkcs11 gsettings-desktop-schemas gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
    gtk-update-icon-cache hicolor-icon-theme humanity-icon-theme libatk-bridge2.0-0t64 libatk1.0-0t64 libatspi2.0-0t64 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairo-gobject2
    libcairo-script-interpreter2 libcairo2 libcdparanoia0 libcolord2 libcups2t64 libdatrie1 libdconf1 libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libegl-mesa0 libegl1 libepoxy0 libgbm1 libgck-1-0 libgck-2-2 libgcr-4-4
    libgcr-base-3-1 libgcr-ui-3-1 libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgl1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgles2 libglvnd0 libglx-mesa0 libglx0 libgraphene-1.0-0 libgraphite2-3
    libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgtk-3-0t64 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libgtk-4-1 libgtk-4-bin libgtk-4-common libgtk-4-media-gstreamer libharfbuzz0b liblcms2-2 libllvm20 libogg0
    libopus0 liborc-0.4-0t64 libpam-gnome-keyring libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpciaccess0 libpixman-1-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsecret-1-0 libsecret-common libthai-data libthai0
    libtheora0 libvisual-0.4-0 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvulkan1 libwayland-client0 libwayland-cursor0 libwayland-egl1 libx11-xcb1 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-render0
    libxcb-shm0 libxcb-sync1 libxcb-xfixes0 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxtst6 libxxf86vm1 mesa-libgallium mesa-vulkan-drivers
    p11-kit p11-kit-modules pinentry-gnome3 session-migration ubuntu-mono x11-common

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