Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/security/gnupg2

[Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>]

From: Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>, Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 10:23:07 -0400

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> Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost> writes:
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>> From: Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>, Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 07:42:46 -0400
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>>> Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Is there any reason to depend on curses-based pinentry only?
>>>> For example, in thunderbird enigmail case,
>>>> pinentry-gtk2 works however curses-based pinentry does not work for me.
>>>> MESSAGE or other documentation file should suggest pinentry* packages
>>>> installation.
>>
>> I do not find official usage about MESSAGE file yet.
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> I don't understand what you mean by that.
> 
> My own opinion that MESSAGE is very much overused and should be avoided
> is not official policy.

I see.
I have misunderstood it is official policy.

>>> All that said, because thunderbird is a gtk thing, not a qt thing,
>>> having the enigmail plugin depend on pinentry-gtk2 seems reasonable.
>>
>> O.k.
>> I will keep pinentry dependency.
>> And I will add pinentry-gtk2 dependency to *-enigmail.
> 
> sounds fine to me.
> 
>>> Sort of realted, are we at the point where the gnupg2 package should
>>> build gpg, and gpg 1 should be deprecated?  I'm not clear on why we are
>>> still using gpg1.
>>
>> I believe gpg2 will work fine for many users.
> 
> Some people seem bothered by it, but I haven't seen specifics, just a
> general objection to some notion of complexity.    As I see it, the
> pinentry thing is the big complexity, but it's also useful, and gpg1
> uses pinentry, so I don't really see how gpg1/gpg2 are different.
> Perhaps it's that with gpg1 on the command line, you can type the
> passphrase manually, and you can't with gpg2, but I'm not clear on the
> details.

At least for my casual use (e-mail with mail/mew or command line
encrypt/decrypt etc.), gpg and gpg2 have no much difference for me.
If you want to use gpg like passphrase interface, you can use pinentry-tty
from security/pinentry.

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