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authorWerner Koch <[email protected]>2022-01-25 09:06:30 +0000
committerWerner Koch <[email protected]>2022-01-25 09:10:53 +0000
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parentdoc: Minor typo fixes (diff)
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doc: Add comments on the legacy status of gpgconf.conf.
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diff --git a/doc/examples/gpgconf.conf b/doc/examples/gpgconf.conf
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--- a/doc/examples/gpgconf.conf
+++ b/doc/examples/gpgconf.conf
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
# defaults in gpgconf and to enforce certain values for the various
# GnuPG related configuration files.
#
+# NOTE: This is a legacy mechanism. The modern way is to use global
+# configuration files like /etc/gnupg/gpg.conf which are more
+# flexible and better integrated into the configuration system.
+#
# Empty lines and comment lines, indicated by a hash mark as first non
# white space character, are ignored. The line is separated by white
# space into fields. The first field is used to match the user or
@@ -56,7 +60,3 @@
# "enable-ocsp" is put into the config file of gpgsm. The latter may
# be changed by any user.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
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