On Wed, Feb 27 2013, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> But right now we force people to enable the agent globally via use-agent
> if they want to decrypt mail in notmuch-cli/emacs. The proposed change
> allows them to use the agent only for notmuch.

Doesn't the proposed change actually *force* the user to use gpg-agent?
How can the user opt out?

> I don't think we should directly care about the presence of an X session
> or not; the agent protocol doesn't depend on how the agent was started
> afaik. 

Maybe, but I would like some example of what happens if you force usage
of an agent and the agent is not present or there is no X session.

All I'm saying is that I would like to see how this patch interacts with
these situations.

jamie.