Ben McGinnes wrote:
IIRC the main argument *AGAINST* 2.x for apt, is that you can't install gnupg2 without also installing gnupg-agent. And nobody wants that on all their routers and phones.
Most of the arguments against gpg-agent aren't actually against gpg-agent, they're against pinentry, [...]
I hoped https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html would have a section like "Why Should I Use Stable (not Classic)?", but I can't find it.
Classic is still good for servers and things where you want something entirely self-contained with no dependencies beyond your compiler.
That was what I was thinking when I said "routers and phones". I didn't say "servers" because those have, like, more than 2MB of nonvolatile storage & RAM, so whinging that you need to waste 128kiB on some stupid agent, is less defensible. Hm, mental note: check what level of trust verification opkg in OpenWRT actually performs.