information overkill

[Bjørn Jacke]

On 2000-11-09 at 09:35 +0100 Werner Koch sent off:
> > ... some people have much more UIDs than this one. I haven't found out
> > how to tell gpg not to care about all those UIDs and leave out all these
> 
> we can't know which user ID make sense.  The signature has only a
> reference to the key and not to any user ID - therefore we btter
> list all user IDs.

Wouldn't it be a good solution to let the --quiet option just list the
primary UID when checking signatures? People (like me) wouldn't bother if
the primary UID is the one from which was actually posted from. But
getting rid of screens full of UIDs would be great.

Bjørn

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