Re: thunderbird needs graphical pinentry to use external gnupg for encrypting emails

"Zhang Wen" ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel
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在 2024/11/19 13:00, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing 
List) 写道:
> How's it different from all the optional dependencies in the book?  Or
> are we going to add some text everywhere for every optional dependency?
> 
I agree with you. Maybe besides 'your distro, your rules', 'your duty' 
is also the truth. The LFS project can't contain everything.
> And the text suggested by you is still incorrect.  For LXQt or XFCE even
> if you rebuild pinentry after building the entire LXQt or XFCE it still
> won't work.
> 
> You have to build pinentry-qt6 (as the book does not have GTK-2 or Qt-
> {4,5} anymore, and the priority of pinentry-fltk is even lower than
> curses) if you want to use pinentry for Thunderbird or other GUI apps in
> these two DEs. But pinentry-qt6 requires the KDE Frameworks which is
> unlikely to be wanted by a user of LXQt or XFCE.
> 
> The pinentry thing is just a mess.
> 
Thanks for sharing these informations.

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