cvs commit: ports/security/gnupg Makefile

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:10:45 -0500, Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
>
>> novel       2007-09-02 11:08:10 UTC
>>
>>  FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>>  Modified files:
>>    security/gnupg       Makefile
>>  Log:
>>  Add RUN_DEPEND on security/pinentry because gpg is almost useless
>>  without it.
>>
>>  PR:             115760   
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115760
>>  Submitted by:   novel
>>  Approved by:    maintainer timeout (1 week, linimon ok)
>>
>>  Revision  Changes    Path
>>  1.106     +2 -1      ports/security/gnupg/Makefile
>>
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/security/gnupg/Makefile.diff?&r1=1.105&r2=1.106&f=h
>
> I don't think this is a good idea for a few reasons. First off, the  
> gnupg port already has a pkg-message that is pretty clear about the fact  
> that you need to pick a pinentry dialog. Second, I don't think that the  
> pinentry port itself is a good choice in its current state. I just did a  
> quick test and as far as I can tell it seems to want to build all of  
> them, which means depending on QT3, and GTK 1 and 2.
>
> I sort of think that this might be reasonable if the pinentry port grew  
> OPTIONS, which I would even be willing to work on if lofi thought it was  
> a good idea. But I don't think the overhead of drawing all of the  
> dialogs in is worth it, and I don't see an easy way of guessing which  
> one the user would want by default.
>
> Can this change be backed out till there has been a little discussion?

I will have to agree with Doug as I won't be surpised if a lot of users  
are going to scream. I think, get it depends on pinentry-curses by default  
would be wise thing to do.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Doug


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