From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bad epg.el+GPG2 behavior: unavoidable passphrase pinentry prompt Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:34:10 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87y56cufkt.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> References: <878uyg0yp1.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <878uyfzf1w.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <87bo389lw0.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380710067 8821 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2013 10:34:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:34:27 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 02 12:34:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VRJlG-0005JT-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:34:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35202 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRJlF-0007uB-QC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:34:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58247) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRJl8-0007t0-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:34:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRJl3-0000S6-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:34:22 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRJl2-0000RL-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 06:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VRJkz-00053x-N3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:34:13 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:34:13 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:34:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QOIdiNh7wKaFwRRNCC1q+XQAaC8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163798 Archived-At: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:23:27 +0900 Daiki Ueno wrote: DU> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> It seems that GnuPG has to be explicitly compiled with >> --allow-loopback-pinentry which IMO is a really painful requirement to >> pass onto Emacs users. I am surprised by this, but perhaps I've >> misunderstood something? DU> Why don't you ask Werner directly about the ideas behind this, instead DU> of complaining here and seeking for a workaround? Because the bug or misbehavior is specifically in epg.el and I don't know the best way to fix it. If you're suggesting I should start fixing epg.el bugs and tracking GnuPG development, that's a different request I won't be able to fulfill. Ted