ubuntu feisty experiences

[Jorge Almeida]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Collins Richey wrote:

>
> the normal version of vim is available.  I'm sure part of the problem
> is that they don't really care about command-line tools anyway. Every
>
This kind of mindset is spreading. One would think that a package like
gnupg would be immune to this disease. Well, think again! There is
gpg-agent, which (as all of you know, probably) allows you to keep your
gnupg passphrases in RAM, to spare you the hassle of entering
passphrases each time you want to use gnupg. But how do you populate the
database with passphrases, to begin with? I would expect a cli command
(like ssh-add does for ssh-agent), but no. You have to use gnupg for
something (like some bogus encryption, just to start the thing up) and
then it asks you for a passphrase. And how? Why, it launches a gtk or qt
thingy, depending on how it was configured. (And if you happen to be
working remote through ssh, you'll have to enable X forwarding. Very
practical, isn't it?) And if you had it configured to console use only,
even so you don't get a simple cli dialog: ncurses is the way (which,
incidentaly, didn't work for me).

Very un-unix-like.
Looks like getting rid of old relatives to be modern...
-- 
Jorge Almeida