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Subject: Re: What's next?
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 22:48:31 +0200
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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 force=
 every user
into trusting our substitute servers.  OTOH I agree that the current
situation is not optimal.

What do people think?

Ludo=E2=80=99.