bug#36784: closed (GnuPG lacks a default pinentry program)

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~/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry by default.
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regarding GnuPG lacks a default pinentry program
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> Cannot generate key pair with GnuPG
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> Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:00:44 -0400
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> Hello Guix!
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> The current gnupg package in guix has "pinentry" as a missing
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> Because of this, GnuPG throws the following error upon attempting to
> generate key pairs:
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> gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
> gpg: key generation failed: No pinentry
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> So it appears, unless the above mentioned dependency issue is fixed,
> one cannot create gpg key pairs. :(
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> Regards,
> RG.
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> Re: bug#24076: [PATCH] gnu: GnuPG: Really use ~/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry by default.
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> Date: 
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> Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:27:46 -0400
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> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 04:57:33PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Here I’d add:
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> >   if (dir == NULL)
> >     {
> >        struct password *pw;
> >        pw = getpwuid (getuid ());
> >        if (pw != NULL)
> >          dir = pw->pw_dir;
> >        else
> >          dir = "/";
> >     }
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> > Otherwise LGTM!
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> Thanks, good idea! Pushed as e5b44b06b3fb19c897fb3e430bd41941905e101f
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