Bug 774156

Summary:	app-eselect/eselect-pinentry - add free form option
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kai S. K. Engelbart <kai>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) <zlogene>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	ionen
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kai S. K. Engelbart 2021-03-04 08:39:50 UTC

I would like to use pinentry-dmenu from https://github.com/drincoxyz/pinentry-dmenu as my pinentry implementation. As this is not an official package, it's clear to me that it cannot be added as an option.

However, would it be possible to implement a free form option akin to the one available in eselect editor? This would allow users of obscure pinentry implementations to easily set those up.

Comment 1 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2021-03-05 10:40:32 UTC

No. it is impossible. eselect-pinentry manages the /usr/bin/pinentry symlink to point it to the appropriate available pinentry implementation (the list is hardcoded in the pinentry-eselect module, that said, adding a non-existing implementation to the array would be wrong, as the package in question does not exist in the repository). eselect-editor has a different purpose, this sets the EDITOR variable in the /etc/env.d/99editor file, that is why a free form is there (everybody can override it either in /etc/env.d or /etc/profile or /etc/environment and so on.)