Nope, GPGME spawns the gpg binary too. The major advantage of GPGME is that it's written by the same folks as GnuPG itself, and hopefully they know how to use

Nope, GPGME spawns the gpg binary too. The major advantage of GPGME is that it's written by the same folks as GnuPG itself, and hopefully they know how to use the binary correctly.