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Subject: bug#38491: Evolution is missing GPG
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Hi Guix,

I recently discovered, that Evolution would complain about a missing
GPG whenever it encounters a signed message.  For the record, I've only
installed evolution-data-server in the operating-system and evolution
itself inside my user profile and not installed gpg in either place,
thus causing this issue.  Would it make sense to make gpg an input to
evolution and hardcode the path in the source?  Or would it perhaps be
better to have it as propagated input?  WDYT?

Regards,
Leo

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Subject: bug#38491: Evolution is missing GPG
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On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 13:11 +0100, Leo Prikler wrote:
> Hi Guix,
> 
> I recently discovered, that Evolution would complain about a missing
> GPG whenever it encounters a signed message.  For the record, I've only
> installed evolution-data-server in the operating-system and evolution
> itself inside my user profile and not installed gpg in either place,
> thus causing this issue.  Would it make sense to make gpg an input to
> evolution and hardcode the path in the source?  Or would it perhaps be
> better to have it as propagated input?  WDYT?
> 
> Regards,
> Leo
> 
> 
> 
> 
Guix complains that it cannot find gpg when I call "guix import gnu
<package>". But unless I'm using a function of guix that depends on gpg,
guix is not broken, so gpg is not an input or propagated input of guix. I
think we have the same situation here. Evolution is functional without GPG,
and handles itself fairly well when gpg is not found.

Try installing gpg locally and see if it stops complaining. If so, we have a
solution. If not, we should consider adding GPG as a propagated input to
Evolution.

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Am Donnerstag, den 05.12.2019, 09:53 -0700 schrieb Jesse Gibbons:
> On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 13:11 +0100, Leo Prikler wrote:
> > Hi Guix,
> > 
> > I recently discovered, that Evolution would complain about a
> > missing
> > GPG whenever it encounters a signed message.  For the record, I've
> > only
> > installed evolution-data-server in the operating-system and
> > evolution
> > itself inside my user profile and not installed gpg in either
> > place,
> > thus causing this issue.  Would it make sense to make gpg an input
> > to
> > evolution and hardcode the path in the source?  Or would it perhaps
> > be
> > better to have it as propagated input?  WDYT?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Leo
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Guix complains that it cannot find gpg when I call "guix import gnu
> <package>". But unless I'm using a function of guix that depends on
> gpg,
> guix is not broken, so gpg is not an input or propagated input of
> guix. I
> think we have the same situation here. Evolution is functional
> without GPG,
> and handles itself fairly well when gpg is not found.
> 
> Try installing gpg locally and see if it stops complaining. If so, we
> have a
> solution. If not, we should consider adding GPG as a propagated input
> to
> Evolution.
That does fix the problem itself, but I personally believe there should
be a better way of handling "optional" inputs -- "optional" because in
at least some if not many cases, people would expect them to exist. 
Guix' emacs has imagemagick as input for instance (even though it is
optional) and a separate emacs-minimal exists as the version without it
and other optional inputs.  I think this pattern could be applied more
broadly.

Regards,
Leo

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