Re: thunderbird needs graphical pinentry to use external gnupg for encrypting emails
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel |
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Am 19.11.24 um 13:42 schrieb Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List): > On Tue, 2024-11-19 at 12:36 +0100, Rainer Fiebig wrote: >> 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. > > ch. Thunderbird is definitely a wrong location because it does not only No, it's definitely _not_ a wrong location. It's not a coincidence that the OP and I encountered the same problem with Thunderbird and not with "git commit -S". > happens with Thunderbird. At least I know it also happens to Git. And > technically it'll happen with every GUI program invoking gpg. Then make it a recommended dep. for those programs, including Thunderbird. Rainer -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/blfs-dev Unsubscribe: See the above information page