ubuntu feisty experiences

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 10:09 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> 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...
Yeah, just gimmie telnet any day. That's my cupa tea. Ric