[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] gnupg: add pinentry RDEPENDS

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Sep 22 12:22:12 UTC 2014


On 22 September 2014 13:00, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
>> You also need the Pinentry package for most function of GnuPG; however
>> it is not a build requirement.  Pinentry is available at
>> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/pinentry/ .
>>
>
> There are some uses of gnupg which never need pinentry. For example, managing
> the set of trusted keys for verifying package and feed signatures with opkg. I'd
> prefer pinentry to be in RRECOMMENDS so that I can add it to
> BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS and thereby disable it when I know it isn't needed.

Agreed.

Ross



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