On 6/9/2011 11:56 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:38, do...@dougbarton.us said:
IMO that would be a serious regression. I have several different
But fixes a lot of problems. The keyring is a database and if we
distribute this database to several files without a way to sync them;
this leads to problems. You may have not been affected by such problems
but only due to the way you use gpg.
Can you elaborate on those problems? I can think of several examples of
databases whose contents are stored in multiple files without any
difficulty, so I'm curious.
it easy to keep things up to date. I also use keyrings to keep the
keys that have signed my key, keys that I've signed, etc.
That's easy to figure out. Your approach keeps duplicates of the keys;
duplicating data is something which should not been done.
Actually I'm very careful to avoid doing just that. :) I have various
command-line aliases to move keys between rings depending on their
status, de-duplicate on import, and cross-check to make sure that I
haven't missed something.
Doug
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