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by AgentME 3234 days ago
I was under the mistaken impression for the longest time that gpg 2 was a fork (maybe a GUI fork?) or otherwise unofficial successor to gpg, and I should continue sticking to gpg 1.x. I figured that gpg2 must have a more complex relationship to gpg than just being the next version of it because otherwise they'd just call it gpg instead of going through the effort to let people keep using gpg 1.x by default.
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That was my impression also. A couple of years ago I put gpg2 in a script and whatever option I used would spawn a GUI window asking for information. I could not stop that from happening so I have stuck with gpg v1.x since.

Curious if that still happens with gpg2.