It's both. There is daemon and library to communicate with that daemon. It similar to gconf2 package (not in function, but in packaging).
It will contain: gnome-keyring (or gnome-keyring-daemon) libgnome-keyring-0 libgnome-keyring-dev packages. On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 15:18, Steve Greenland wrote: > There's still a few minor problems. > > On 23-Mar-04, 07:22 (CST), Ond?ej Sur? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Updated Description: program that keep passwords and other secrets > > gnome-keyring is a daemon in the session, similar to ssh-agent, and > > other applications can locate it by an environment variable. > > Consider this: > > Description: store passwords and other secrets securely > > At a minimum, change "that keep" to "that keeps". > > English sentences always begin with a capital letter; you can avoid > the annoyance of capitalizing a file name by using the project name, > e.g. "Gnome Keyring is a daemon", but there's nothing wrong with > "Gnome-keyring is a ...", either. > > You might want to put the first paragraph second: it is more important > to know what it does than how it does it. And actually, I'm still not > sure whether gnome-keyring is a GUI front end or a back end that other > packages can use (which other packages?), or both. > > Regards, > Steve -- Ondřej Surý <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>