error in --help

[Werner Koch]

Holger Schurig <holger@holger.om.org> writes:

> But in fact GnuPG loads those modules really into memory and uses them.

No, I don't think so:  The help message is emiited while parsing the
given options the first time.  GnuPG has to parse them 2 times because
it must know certain options before processing others (debug, options,
no-options, logfile-fd)

> It's just that the helptext get's displayed before the options file
> get executed. Therefore the output of suggested algorithms is static.

Well it's a feature :-)



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