Re: ASDF-Install patch to allow installation of unsigned packages

Gary King <[email protected]> Thu, 24 May 2007 18:29:50 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> It seems to me that these are choices made by the person installing  
> a package, whereas making a package without a signature is a choice  
> made by the person providing the package.

Tim, this is a reasonable distinction.

> I'm okay with opting out of the signature verification on my end if  
> it's expedient, but I'm not really down with a potential  
> proliferation of unsigned packages.  In my world, an unsigned  
> package should not be called ASDF-INSTALLable.

Could it be ASDF-Installable but just not be called that (kidding!).
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