Should Gnome2 meta port include security/pinentry-gtk2?

Robert Noland rnoland at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 17 20:14:28 PST 2009


On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:10 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:51 -0500, Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 21:39 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 10:52 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
> > > > Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:56 +0800, Denise H. G. wrote:
> > > > >> It seems that without security/pinentry-gtk2, seahorse wouldn't get full
> > > > >> functions, such as adding new names to an existing key.
> > 
> > Is seahorse-plugins installed?
> > 
> > > > > Is this documented anywhere?
> > > > >
> > > > > Joe
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > I haven't found it on seahorse's official site. But I got this on
> > > > redhat's bug archives and gentoo's:
> > > > 
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474419
> > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159505
> > > 
> > > Interesting because I don't see anywhere in the seahorse code where
> > > pinentry is executed.  In fact, seahorse is working just fine for me
> > > without pinentry.  Can you provide a sequence I can test which will
> > > illustrate the problem caused by lacking pinentry-gtk2?
> > 
> > seahorse-agent is (now?) part of seahorse-plugins.  This is needed
> > during session startup to provide services for evolution, etc...
> 
> Right, but everything is working just fine without pinentry.  I just
> have seahorse and seahorse-plugins installed.

Yes, i think that is all that is needed.  Unless I've missed it
somewhere, there isn't a dependency on seahorse-plugins though.

robert.

> Joe
> 
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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