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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#24076: gnupg [-agent]: when signing [commits],
	it claims that there is no pinentry - but there is
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:58:29 +0300
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Danny Milosavljevic (2016-07-28 15:04 +0300) wrote:

>> Another option would be to change =E2=80=98gnupg_module_name=E2=80=99, i=
n homedir.c, from:
>>=20
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>     case GNUPG_MODULE_NAME_PINENTRY:
>> #ifdef GNUPG_DEFAULT_PINENTRY
>>       return GNUPG_DEFAULT_PINENTRY;
>> #else
>>       X(bindir, "pinentry");
>> #endif
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>=20
>> to something like:
>>=20
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>     case GNUPG_MODULE_NAME_PINENTRY:
>>       X(homedir, ".guix-profile/bin/pinentry);
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>=20
>> =E2=80=A6 in which case GnuPG would default to the user-installed pinent=
ry, if
>> available.  Not perfect either, but closer to what other distros do.
>
> I would like that, yes. It's not like the X(bindir, "pinentry") would
> ever work in GuixSD anyway - so no loss.

(Not only GuixSD, but Guix in general)

I agree, this would be better than the current situation.

--=20
Alex