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CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/gnome-online-accounts



Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   wiz
Date:           Sun Jul 12 00:46:43 UTC 2015

Added Files:
        pkgsrc/net/gnome-online-accounts: DESCR Makefile PLIST distinfo

Log Message:
Import gnome-online-accounts-3.16.3 as net/gnome-online-accounts.

Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) provides a centralized service that
allows a set of online accounts to be configured for use with core
GNOME applications. In UX terms, GOA provides a static list of
online accounts that can be setup by users (through the Online
Accounts panel in System Settings). These accounts can then be used
by core GNOME applications.

While third party applications can access the accounts setup through
GOA, this is not its explicit goal, nor does GOA set out to enable
third party applications to add online accounts of their own. There
are several reasons for this:

* Third-party applications should be able to identify themselves
  to online services for the purposes of branding and tracking.
* Third-party applications shouldn't be able to identify themselves
  under a generic OS or distributor key - this would be misleading
  as to what is actually accessing the account, and would prevent
  there from being specific contracts of trust between users and
  applications who access their data.
* It would prevent users from blocking specific applications from
  accessing their account (should an application sandboxing framework
  come into effect).


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r0 -r1.1 pkgsrc/net/gnome-online-accounts/DESCR \
    pkgsrc/net/gnome-online-accounts/Makefile \
    pkgsrc/net/gnome-online-accounts/PLIST \
    pkgsrc/net/gnome-online-accounts/distinfo

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.




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