Hello:
... also be able to have none of these options installed and it should work fine without.
On the dot ... See my last post. ie: BiT works fine without any of those options installed. I purged gnome-keyring and now have only the *necessary* keyrings: [code] $ apt list | grep installed | grep keyring --- snip --- debian-archive-keyring/stable,stable,now 2023.3+deb12u2 all [installed] devuan-keyring/stable,stable,now 2023.05.28 all [installed] python3-keyring/stable,stable,now 23.9.3-2 all [installed,automatic] $ [/code] All this is probably due to my system having started as Jesse (or ascii?) and is now, after a seies of dist-upgrades, at Daedalus. No matter, it has remained and probably will remain resilient enough. Probably only needs a bit more housekeeping. Thanks for your input. Best, JHM