Am 23.10.2014 um 03:36 schrieb Eric Dorland: > Control: reassign -1 tasksel > Control: retitle -1 please add dependencies on pinentry > Control: tags -1 patch > > Reassigning to tasksel as suggested and patch attached. > > * Eric Dorland (eric@debian.org) wrote: >> Package: gnome >> Version: 1:3.8+8 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> This came up at a DebConf discussion around gnupg2. Right now gnupg-agent >> (required by newer gnupg versions) needs a pinentry program (basically a >> program that prompts for a PIN or password). Right now it depends on >> pinentry-gtk2, which gives a good experience for users with a desktop >> environment but pulls in a lot of dependencies for a non-graphical system. >> >> So we would like to switch to pinentry-curses instead to lighten the >> dependency load, but we'd also not like to regress the experience for >> users of graphical desktops. So if it was added to the task package then >> those users would get the better experience and we could move the default >> depedency to pinentry-curses. >> >> I suspect Recommends would also be a strong enough dependency relationship >> for this purpose. Thanks for your consideration. gnome-shell has a builtin gpg password prompter. So at least for GNOME, it's not necessary to install pinentry-gtk2. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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