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chrispoole

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Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 121

Swap gnupg for gnupg2?

I have both gpg1 and gpg2 installed alongside each other quite nicely.

I can't remove gnupg though, because it depends on gpgme, which itself is a requirement for lots of other programs like seahorse (I use GNOME DE).

Is it possible to remove gnupg, thus just keeping gnupg2, or are the dependencies implicit in seahorse's (and others') PKGBUILD files preventing this?

(gnupg1 and gnupg2 duplicate functionality, and I don't care about having the cut-down size of gnupg1.)

EVRAMP

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-10-03

Posts: 173

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Re: Swap gnupg for gnupg2?

From what i have seen gnupg2 does NOT duplicate gnupg1. It looks like gnupg2 add some features and can also stand alone, but for most of situations and applications gnupg1 is needed.

Lifty

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Registered: 2006-11-05

Posts: 62

Re: Swap gnupg for gnupg2?

... but for most of situations and applications gnupg1 is needed.

Could you give some examples? Do you mean its needed the way that it can't be replaced by gpg2? Or is it like it was there first and nobody cared enough to switch dependencies/recompile to/with gpg2?
I've configured kgpg to use gnupg2 because I thought its newer/better but I guess there are no benefits from it when KDE still uses gpg1 (eg. in kmail).