I wrote about the pass Unix password manager [1] [2].
After a recent Slackware install, the pass script began to delay for 60 seconds or more before prompting me for my GPG password. I tracked the delay down to gpg2 waiting for pinentry. I could work around the delay by adding the following line to my .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
no-allow-external-cache
It may be related to me importing the GNU project keyring [3] to validate source code archives. The GNU project keyring has over 12,000 signatures!
$ gpg2 --list-signatures | wc -l
12019
While troubleshooting this, i asked for help in the #pass IRC channel on libera.chat. I did not receive help, but i received a condescending attitude about me running X11 instead of Wayland. I want better than that.
I found a minimal script named puss.sh. I modified it to be a drop-in replacement for the pass password-store Unix password manager. I copied my ~/.password-store/ to ~/.pusswordstore/ and started using puss.sh [4] instead of pass.
This resolves all of the items on my wishlist for the pass Unix password manager.