From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 2 10:24:10 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E9A16A419 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:24:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-61.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-61.bluehost.com [69.89.21.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB38013C491 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 30187 invoked by uid 0); 2 Aug 2007 10:24:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 2 Aug 2007 10:24:09 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IGXqj-0000Qr-5l for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:24:09 -0600 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l72AO8Qi090731 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:24:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l72AO7sb090730 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:24:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:24:07 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20070802102407.GA90696@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20070802083535.GA89509@demeter.hydra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070802083535.GA89509@demeter.hydra> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box183.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [737 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apotheon.com Subject: Re: GnuPG, pinentry, and Qt X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:24:10 -0000 On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:35:35AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > So I tried installing GnuPG on a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE system. It doesn't > work without pinentry installed. > > Okay, I can handle that. No big deal. Apparently GnuPG 2.x requires a > separate utility for password handling now. No big deal. I run > portinstall pinentry. > > At this point, I notice something very, very odd: pinentry won't install > because of a problem with Qt. > > Why the heck would GnuPG ultimately depend on Qt in any way? Okay . . . so I should have looked a little harder at the pinentry ports available before sending this email to the list. Apparently there are three different versions. I'm still curious about a couple of things, though: 1. Why is Qt the default for the nonspecific security/pinentry port? 2. Why start a separate, external application for getting the passphrase at all? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] awj @reddit: "The terms never and always are never always true."