On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Curt Sampson wrote:

: > You need key rings in order to do key selection.

: Though I'm still wondering if one couldn't perhaps do something with
: --no-options, which 'prevents the creation of a "~./gnupg" homedir', but
: I'd still have no idea how to get the key into the thing.

You probably want the trio:

    --no-options --no-default-keyring --keyring /path/to/pubring.pgp

To import a key to such a keyring, do "gpg <above options> --import".

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