[email protected] skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> [email protected] skribis:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>>> That’s because the ‘gpg-agent’ Shepherd service is created if and only
>>>> if you set (ssh-support? #t).
>>>
>>> Shouldn't that be documented somewhere? I don't see being mentioned that
>>> in (info "(guix) GNU Privacy Guard").
>>
>> Doesn’t seem to be documented, but would be worth adding it!
>>
>> Note that, at an abstract level, the Home service still does what it
>> says: it creates its configuration files, etc.  Creation of a Shepherd
>> service can be seen as an “implementation detail”. :-)
>
> Not really clear to the average user though :D. I always thought agent
> is like a daemon.

It is a deamon, but gpg starts it automatically by default.  Only if you
need SSH support do you need to have it started by yourself.

Ludo’.

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