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On Tuesday 20 September 2005 16:47, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 07:14, Christian Parpart wrote: |
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> > On Monday 19 September 2005 14:57, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > > On Monday 19 September 2005 14:16, Christian Parpart wrote: |
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> > > > The question is: why does kmail not ask me for a passphrase when no |
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> > > > gpg-agent is available anyway? |
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> > > |
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> > > Mine does, with a big fat warning (this morning something went wrong) |
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> > > to the manual to get it working better. I've got 3.4.2-r1. |
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> > |
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> > Well, I didn't get it working natively, but when using gpg-agent (and |
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> > installing pinentry additionally) it seems to work just as expected. |
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> > |
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> > However, the non gpg-agent variant seems to be buggy since AGES, I |
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> > found bug reports on this from november 2004 in bugs.kde.org with not |
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> > just a single person being complaining - however. |
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> Yeah, pinentry is kindof required. Perhaps it should be included as a |
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> dependency somewhere. |
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It indeed *would* make sense to let keychain DEPEND on it in case the not yet |
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existing gnupg/gpg useflag is enabled for the keychain ebuild, though, |
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foolish keychain users like me won't forget it to emerge (pinentry came into |
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my mind as I've been browsing the extracted dist archive). |
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Christian Parpart. |
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