thats great news! I will test the keyword with Archlinux's Builds System (and Fakeroot) as soon as possible!

exactly this UID comparison is not enough within fakeroot environment! thanks for redirecting me to homedir.c!

exactly, as soon as I need a socketdir other than GNUPGHOME I would use gpgconf --create-socketdir and remove it afterwards via gpgconf --remove-socketdir. But it seems that the socketdir /run/user/UID/gnupg is created by default.

that's great news to my eyes. thanks werner!

Excuse me you are right of course. man gpgconf | grep quot says it all.

man gpg | grep quote nor man gpgconf | grep quote does not tell anything about it. I recognized the single opening quote of "string at post processing the output of gpgconf --list-options to generate a gpgconf.conf template. I just expected a closing quote for "string".

From which version on there will be global config files? The only info I found was about /etc/gnupg/gpgconf.conf and /etc/skel/.gnupg/* to manage presets.