Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes:

> [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.
>

I see, good to know!

> Ludo’.
>
>

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