Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:21:52 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: Tobias Rehbein <tobias.rehbein@web.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is security/pinentry not a dependency of security/gnupg Message-ID: <20080622182152.421046a8@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20080622152556.GA18003@sushi.pseudo.local> References: <20080622152556.GA18003@sushi.pseudo.local>
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:25:56 +0200 Tobias Rehbein <tobias.rehbein@web.de> wrote: > Perhaps someone can share his wisdom with me. I just installed security/gnupg > and tried to create a key pair using "gpg --gen-key". After issuing the command > gnupg barfed at me that pinentry could not be started. Now I wonder why pinentry > is not a dependency of gpg as it seems to rely on it? > I wondered that myself when I encountered this error. The only thing to do is install one of the pinentry ports. > Or is there some way to use gpg without pinentry? > If there is I certainly couldn't find it. gnupg alwyas seems to want to see the passphrase. At the most inconvenient times. Its' a real PITA. --- Gary Jennejohn
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