Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 04:24:07 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GnuPG, pinentry, and Qt Message-ID: <20070802102407.GA90696@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20070802083535.GA89509@demeter.hydra> References: <20070802083535.GA89509@demeter.hydra>
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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."
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