It is not a typo. Citing from [1] "[..] No, that is not a typo. --daemon used to be required to avoid starting several gpg-agents - which happened quite often while in lets-see-what-happens testing mode. Later the code was change so that running gpg-agent without any args tested whether a gpg-agent is already running. Thus we can simplify the paragraph. [..]"
[1] https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/msg3034 Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

