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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: bug#31284: [PATCH 0/1] guix: Add git-fetch/impure.
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 13:28:13 -0400
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To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
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Hi Chris,

Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> You've both said that you would prefer not to add git-fetch/impure to
> Guix.  Can you help me to understand why you feel that way?  I really
> think it would be nice if Guix could fetch Git repositories over SSH
> using public key authentication, so I'm hoping that we can talk about it
> and figure out an acceptable way to implement it.

I thought about it some more, and found that I cannot really justify my
position on this, so I hereby drop my objection.  It's obviously not
useful for packages that will be included in Guix itself, which is our
primary focus, but I suppose it could be useful for private package
definitions.

What do you think, David?  It seems to me that password tokens in URLs
raise possible security risks, whereas public-key authentication is
generally better practice.

       Mark