Re: GnuPG homedir and package.el?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:21:22 +0200 Jens Lechtenboerger <address@hidden> wrote: 

JL> On 2017-04-04, at 11:04, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> I was wondering if you could provide explicit options to this variable
>> with :tag descriptions, so users customizing this variable have a nice
>> interface? Something like (the middle one is very untested):

JL> That's added now.  I don't know whether there are conventions for
JL> this, but I changed the order to have the default appear first.
JL> I also changed the wording a bit to show my original motivation for
JL> this patch, omit --homedir.

That's great, thank you. I don't know any conventions for the order either.

JL> What I personally don't like about this tag usage is that the
JL> customize buffer does not show the variable's real value any longer.
JL> Is that a bug or a feature?

I think it's a feature. The typical user doesn't care about
`(expand-file-name "gnupg" package-user-dir)', they just want the
"Default Emacs package management GnuPG home directory" wherever that
lives.

Ted