Bug 637510 – app-crypt/pinentry REQUIRED_USE insufficient

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel M. Weeks 2017-11-14 17:55:43 UTC]

REQUIRED_USE="|| ( ncurses gtk qt4 qt5 )" is insufficient for all possible use cases. pinentry-tty is always built regardless of these flags. The gnome gnome-keyring flag for building pinentry-gnome3 is also missing. Either of these could be used independently to provide only one pinentry implementation but it is currently impossible per REQUIRED_USE.

I think either:

1. A USE flag should be added that controls pinentry-tty and that flag, along with gnome-keyring, should be added to REQUIRED_USE.

*or*

2. This portion of the REQUIRED_USE should be dropped since pinentry-tty will always be built and will allow all other flags to be disabled.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2017-11-14 19:46:14 UTC]

pinentry-tty has no extra dependencies and is a rescue when all other fails, there is no reason not to build it.

[Comment 2 Daniel M. Weeks 2017-11-14 19:55:57 UTC]

(In reply to Alon Bar-Lev from comment #1)
> pinentry-tty has no extra dependencies and is a rescue when all other fails,
> there is no reason not to build it.

Then it sounds like option #2 is the route to take to allow all options to be used independently.

[Comment 3 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2017-11-14 20:05:44 UTC]

Right, I misunderstood your initial writing.

Fixed.