[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’.
