On Monday 01 March 2010 05:20:44 Eric Dorland wrote: > * Daniel Leidert (daniel.leid...@wgdd.de) wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 17.12.2009, 20:11 -0500 schrieb nobled: > > > There hasn't been much activity on bug #483724 - doesn't it require > > > gnupg 1.x to convert to update-alternatives first? Is that still on > > > the todo list? > > > > The suggestion to use update-alternatives hasn't been forgotten. > > However, there are currently no plans to do this now. The implications > > of this action should be examined first. This will probably happen in > > the near furture, when we also examine how to handle the new gnupg 2.1 > > series. > > Ok, lets discuss it. gnupg and gnupg2 should be largely compatible on > the command-line, so I doubt there would be many problems with things > that depend on the behavior of gpg, but there might be a few. Probably > a bit late in this release cycle to try this out, but if we prefer > gnupg and add a dire warning to gnupg2 that switching the link is > completely untested, maybe it's ok :) > > The other option could be to drop gnupg and just use gnupg2. gnupg2 > has a slightly larger footprint, and has a few more small > dependencies. We may be able to tighten things up a bit so that it > takes up less space. > > But I think making it an alternative is a better, more incremental > step.
With my kdepim-maint-hat on (not my mostly inactive gnupg comaintainer hat) I would like to see gpg moved to use alternatives, with gpg2 having a slightly higher priority than gpg1. At the same time, I would like to see gpg-agent starting unconditionally by the xsession to give kdepim users the best possible crypto experience. kdepim relies on a functioning gpg-agent in order to do crypto stuff, something that I get more and more requests about to get fully working. /Sune - and I would be happy to see gnupg2 being part of pkg-gnupg if the maintainer follows along ;) -- How to link the floppy disk? You have to unmount the LCD device of the mailer for clicking a case.
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