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by brotherjerky 3448 days ago
Does `-no-use-agent` work? I see this in man:

       --no-use-agent
              This is dummy option. gpg always requires the agent.
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jph 3447 days ago
I'll remove it now. It was useful to have (for me) for GPG version 1 when I connected to machines via SSH and didn't want a GPG agent pop up UI, and didn't have an easy way to change the GPG agent settings.
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jwilk 3448 days ago
Contemporary versions of GnuPG (>= 2.1 IIRC) always use gpg-agent, and this option does nothing except producing a warning:

  gpg: WARNING: "--no-use-agent" is an obsolete option - it has no effect
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