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bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Dec 2023 16:00:26 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Arsen Arsenović <arsen@aarsen.me> writes:
Hi Arsen,
>>> I disagree. I think that involving the f-n-h-a mechanism for handling
>>> PGP files ultimately introduces implicitly far more complexity, even if
>>> the code is slightly briefer, precisely because of this dependency.
>>
>> I disagree with your disagreement, and agree with Michael here. I see
>> no maintainer's complexity in using file-name handlers that could be
>> avoided by not using them: file-name handlers are, and will always be,
>> an integral part of Emacs internals, so thinking about them as
>> "complexity" makes no more sense than, say, thinking about GC as
>> complexity.
>
> In that case, auth-source-pass should ensure it's there. This is where
> the complexity I refer to creeps in. Now auth-source-pass needs to
> alter and restore file-name-handler-alist as appropriate. This means
> that it has to get involved with global state, potentially impacting
> other functions it calls.
No, auth-source-pass should not enable it on its own I believe. It
should fire an error, which hopefully produces a backtrace. This
backtrace would help us to understand, what's up.
> It seems to me more reliable to alter EPA to provide an
> insert-file-contents functions for direct use. This is less composable
> and elegant than file-name handlers, naturally, but it is also exactly
> what a password-store read requires.
No. There is no reason to implement this.
> Arsen Arsenović
Best regards, Michael.
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, (continued)
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/23
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Michael Albinus, 2023/12/23
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/23
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, J.P., 2023/12/23
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Michael Albinus, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Michael Albinus, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled,
Michael Albinus <=
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Michael Albinus, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/29
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Michael Albinus, 2023/12/29
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Michael Albinus, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Michael Albinus, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/24
- bug#67937: 30.0.50; auth-source-pass relies on epa-file being enabled, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/12/23