For some time now those maintaining gnupg have been attempting to go gnupg-2 only on Gentoo. I have tried to support that effort, despite all other distros supporting/providing both. Not to mention all gnupg release notes stating.
"GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.7) in that it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact, the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching. The advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on other modules at run and build time. We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1 versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server based applications requiring only OpenPGP support." http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q2/000254.html http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2007q1/000252.html http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000242.html http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000239.html Also "There are no plans to give up development on 1.4 after the 2.0 release." http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000236.html This has sparked the following open bugs, and countless more closed ones :( http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153496 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160302 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164523 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171871 Probably more open bugs, those are just what I stumbled across while looking for OTHER things :) I tried to squelsh this early on with. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159623 I am really not effected by this any more. Just concerned that a problem that showed up in January, still exists to this day :( Bugs keep stacking up and a resolution, short of slotting and providing both. Is no where in site :( For the record I fully support those in their efforts to go gnupg-2 only on Gentoo. However it's not been practical for some time, and likely will continue to be such. There is a bit of upstream chaos going on, and till they rein in the problems. Not much we can do downstream. Not to mention we deviate from all other distros i their offerings. Where we have limited offerings, lack of choice :( Which does not seem to be in Gentoo's nature. No more from me on this. I have done enough on bugs, and me taking this to -dev is my final contributions. I leave it up to others to decide and resolve. I was over my limits months ago on this :) Thanks to all who have made effort to get this resolved or etc. -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java
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