On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 08:03:49PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > libgpgme is communicating with gnupg in the background - having > libgpgme without gnupg itself will render the library completely > unusable and break existing users of the library. > Therefore, if you have something that wants libgpgme, you will also > always want gnupg installed to ensure the library functionality is > actually provided. > Also, gnupg/libgpgme are tiny, so you won't waste much disk space > here. *Was* tiny. gnupg now pulls in a pile of dependencies and is 12MB on top of the package providing the actual gpg binary. https://bugs.debian.org/891931 For some applications, that's substantial. I'm not sure if that's the case for any of the reverse dependencies of libgpgme. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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