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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's next?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 19:31:36 -0700
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
>
>> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:16:45PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>>> On GuixSD, the key of hydra.gnu.org and bayfront.guixsd.org are always
>>> registered by default.  We cannot do that for someone installing Guix on
>>> a foreign distro because that involves creating a file in /etc.
>>
>> Many installs are not on GuixSD. Can't we use the key that is stored
>> in the store itself? If /etc does not exist then use what comes
>> with the installation.
>
> The current behavior is to print a warning when /etc/guix/acl (the list
> of authorized keys) is empty or nonexistent.
>
> Your suggestion would be to automatically populate it, right?
>
> I=E2=80=99m mildly reluctant to that, because we=E2=80=99d stealthily for=
ce every user
> into trusting our substitute servers.  OTOH I agree that the current
> situation is not optimal.
>

Maybe there could be a prompt that tells the user the current message
(no keys in /etc/guix/acl) and then asks them if they'd like to register
the default Guix substitute server keys? That'd be a middle ground
solution.

Maxim