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’. > > -- tusharhero
