Re: [PATCH 1/3] config: deprecate/drop crypto.gpg_path under gmime 2.6/3.0

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>]

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On Fri 2017-07-14 15:12:00 +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> gmime 3.0 no longer offers a means to set the path for gpg.
>
> Users can set $PATH anyway if they want to pick a
> differently-installed gpg (e.g. /usr/local/bin/gpg), so this isn't
> much of a reduction in functionality.

see also:

  https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime/pull/7

> The one main difference is for people who have tried to use "gpg2" to
> make use of gpg 2.1, but that isn't usefully co-installable anyway.

I think the recommendation for those folks would be something like:

    mkdir -p ~/bin
    ln -s $(which gpg2) ~/bin/gpg
    PATH=~/bin:$PATH

though i'm inclined to just suggest that people don't do the "gpg2"
co-installable thing at all, since gpg 1.4 and 2.1 diverge on both
public keyrings and secret keyrings, and 2.0 is EOL in < 6 months.

       --dkg

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