Comment # 4 on bug 934214 from Ludwig Nussel

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #2)
> The main issue I see:
> pinentry is linked against libsecret (a new feature in 0.9.3)
> libsecret will,for apparent reason, want to be able to start dbus related
> stuff (dconf, gconf, gnome-keyring), just to name a few.

It wants to talk to dbus but it does not need to start it IMO. On a "proper"
session there should be a dbus session bus already. If there is none, libraries
should just fail to talk to it.

> An alternative solution might be to have pinentry a bit more 'granular': the
> curses/tty version could be built without libsecret (hence, without glib)
> and the UI variants with libsecret.
> 
> Thoughts?

Would be also a way to work around the problem.