[Enigmail] GPG-AGENT preferences

[Dirk Wetter]

Hi all,

the logic -- if I understand everything correctly --
behind when to use gpg-agent and when not doesn't
make sense to me. This seems to be one of the cases
where a program wants to be smarter than me, a human. :-)

A real world case: I have a Suse 10.3 system here
where through some magic I do not understand -- and
I do not care -- the GPG_AGENT_INFO environment variable is set.
However there's no gpg-agent started/it died/whatsoever. Besides:
Also if there would be one: heck, I don't want to use
it. Also the config in TB/EM say "please don't use it, I
don't want it". Why is that overridden?

My suggestion is to give the power of decision whether to use
the agent or not the switch "use gpg-agent for passphrase
handling" --- as people would expect -- and not the existence
of an environment variable.

Cheers,
	Dirk


PS: I know that there has been discussions recently but
    can't find it anymore.


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