From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: Guix mentioned in Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 11:22:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87vb1cxgyc.fsf@igalia.com> References: <20160614074712.GA29135@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCkZM-0004NV-QQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 05:23:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCkZI-0007YH-IO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 05:23:35 -0400 Received: from pb-sasl2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.67]:57598 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCkZI-0007JR-EF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 05:23:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160614074712.GA29135@thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:47:12 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pjotr Prins Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue 14 Jun 2016 09:47, Pjotr Prins writes: > (3) I also think the default GUIX key should just be available. Why make > guix authorize an extra step? When I install guix, I WANT it. I agree. If you are installing from a binary snapshot, you are trusting binaries now. Trusting binaries in the future is not the same but very similar and almost always what the user wants. The minority of users that prefer a different source of binaries in the future can set this up themselves. Andy