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[PATCH] gnu: Add Parcimonie.

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From: Petter <petter <at> mykolab.ch>
To: 26776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26776: [PATCH] gnu: Add Parcimonie.
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 13:51:28 +0200

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Hi Guix,

So I'm looking to improve my key management skills and was reading this article,
https://riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/best-practices
I had not heard of Parcimonie before, but I immediately liked the idea of it.
And since Parcimonie wasn't packaged for Guix I of course figured I should
package it real quick. After all, a program that just refreshes your keyring
every now and then shouldn't be too complex and need a lot of dependencies,
maybe a few, right?

Well, it needed a lot. And the dependencies needed a lot of dependencies. And
also some of the dependencies dependencies required many dependencies. Great! I
naively jumped into this, and at any one point had no idea if I was packaging
the last module or not (I'm sure you're familiar with this). Think I got the
last one in the end though. But it's taken waaay more time than I anticipated.
Also with 56 packages it becomes difficult to make sure each of them is on
standard, so I assume some are below standard.

It would be particularly interesting if someone with some Parcimonie experience
could try it, and report if there's any missing features etc.. I haven't used
it before and have just started it a few times to see that it can at least
start.

Back to the article for me :)

Best,
Petter

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