Re: [gentoo-user] app-crypt/pinentry - major rework: "/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2" missing [RESOLVED]

[Ramon Fischer]

Thanks!

The USE flag "gtk" for the package "app-crypt/gcr" was missing.



   $ < /etc/portage/package.use/pinentry
   app-crypt/pinentry gtk
   app-crypt/gcr gtk
   $ emerge --ask --changed-use gcr
   $ emerge --ask pinentry
   $ ls -l /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81520 Jan 31 17:21 /usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3
   $ eselect pinentry list
   Available pinentry binary implementations:
      [1] pinentry-gnome3
      [2] pinentry-curses *
      [3] pinentry-tty
   $ eselect pinentry set 1
   $ eselect pinentry list
   Available pinentry binary implementations:
      [1]   pinentry-gnome3 *
      [2]   pinentry-curses
      [3]   pinentry-tty

From the issue ticket:

After following your instructions, it is working again using "/usr/bin/pinentry-gnome3":

Therefore I propose that if app-crypt/pinentry uses +gtk, there should be a 
dependency for app-crypt/gcr +gtk

I totally agree with this.

See <https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/>
    This module is heading towards planned deprecation.

    functionality that has not already been moved elsewhere.

It have been un-recommended for a long time.

    It will continue to be supported and API/ABI stable throughout the GNOME 2.x series,     but we do not recommend using it in new applications unless you require

Thanks for the clarification!

-Ramon

On 31/01/2021 13:43, Wynn Wolf Arbor wrote:

On 2021-01-31 13:03, Ramon Fischer wrote:

The USE flag "gtk" was not removed:

    -IUSE="caps emacs gnome-keyring fltk gtk ncurses qt5"
    +IUSE="caps emacs gnome-keyring gtk ncurses qt5"

Since when is this obsolete and is there any alternative?

I cannot comment directly on the obsolescence of pinentry-gtk2 (most
certainly a decision upstream), but the alternative is pinentry-gnome3.

The gtk flag was not removed because it now configures pinentry-gnome3
instead of -gtk2. You should be able to select that using 'eselect
pinentry', but because of [1] you'll have to enable the gtk flag for
app-crypt/gcr first and then rebuild app-crypt/pinentry.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767424

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