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[PATCH] home: home-gpg-agent-service: add new parameter 'use-keyboxd?'.

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Message #26 received at 77826 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: sebastien-farge <at> laposte.net
Cc: 77826 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gabriel Santos <gabrielsantosdesouza <at> disroot.org>
Subject: Re: [bug#77826] [PATCH] home: home-gpg-agent-service: add new
 parameter 'use-keyboxd?'.
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:32:46 +0200

Hello,

sebastien-farge <at> laposte.net writes:

> We can find a little explanation in info gpg2 - GPG Configuration  (4.3 Configuration Files)

[...]

> We can see that keyboxd is now the default agent (it replace gpg-agent) for newcomers like me :)  And to be honest i don't know
> much more.

Hmm, I saw that, though I didn’t interpret it as being a replacement of
‘gpg-agent’, but maybe it is?  This is all incredibly blurry.

> In my hurry to contribute to Guix i thougth a boolean parameter wil be ok, but looking for an answer at your question shows that it
> may not be a good idea. Because it is not possible to use gnupg without keyboxd if you don't already have a keyring, and so the false
> alternative is a no-go.

Why?  Because gpg would not work without keyboxd in some cases?

Ludo’.

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