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

Am 19.11.24 um 06:00 schrieb Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev
Mailing List):
> On Mon, 2024-11-18 at 21:58 +0800, Zhang Wen wrote:
>> On 11/18/24 21:42, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing 
>> List) wrote:
>>> I just cannot see any way we can ever "fix" this.  Raising gcr to
>>> recommended is not an option because GNOME is not used widely by BLFS
>>> users.
>>>
>>>
>> Maybe we can add some words on pinentry page, saying that the pinentry
>> built here is not full, and can be rebuilt to be more functionally after 
>> installing some graphical environments, or on the thunderbird and git 
>> page? it's really borning without this information.
> 
> 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?
The problem here is that Thunderbird (and perhaps other) needs a
graphical pinentry-box.  Else one cannot enter the passphrase.  To the
user this is rather confusing because this happens even though he has
followed the book to the point.

I found this out the hard way in 2019 and ever since build pinentry
after GTK/QT.  A note at least in ch. Thunderbird would have helped a
lot at the time.

Rainer

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