Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 12:24:49 -0700
From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To: Derek Schrock <dereks@lifeofadishwasher.com>
Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, adamw@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: mail/{neo,}mutt: why not packaged with gpgme?
Message-ID: <A0011F37-99FD-4C0B-8FBD-59D21082D861@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161106192007.GA71606@ircbsd.lifeofadishwasher.com>
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> On 6 Nov, 2016, at 12:20, Derek Schrock <dereks@lifeofadishwasher.com> =
wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 07:14:52AM EDT, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:45:51PM +0100, Niklaas Baudet von =
Gersdorff wrote:
>>> Hello,
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>>> While talking about an issue I have with mail/{neo,}mutt and
>>> security/gnupg on #gnupg on freenode I was advised to use
>>> security/gpgme with mutt. I haven't been using gpgme for a while,
>>> mainly because the packaged versions of both mail/{neo,}mutt have
>>> it disabled and I was too lazy to compile it on my own. Since
>>> I got that advice, I've started wondering:
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>>> Why is gpgme disabled by default?
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>>> As was argued (and as I experienced myself) setting up mutt to
>>> work with gpgme is much easier than without. Especially gnupg2
>>> made it difficult to configure mutt without gpgme. So why not
>>> enabling gpgme in the packaged versions?
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>>> I decided not to create a PR about this request. If that's wrong,
>>> tell me and I'll create one.
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>>> Niklaas
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>> Actually having tested it, yes you are right it is way more simple, I =
have
>> activated it in neomutt
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>> Best regards,
>> Bapt
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> I can't find any reason why it was off in mail/mutt, maybe because it
> was always off since 2006. However, since this appears to be a
> non-disruptive change, excluding some extra packages being installed, =
I
> think it should be turned on for mail/mutt as well. Can this be =
updated
> without a PR/patch?
Done.
# Adam
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Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
http://www.adamw.org
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