On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:56:55 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2016 13:54:08 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote:
No, there is no reason to avoid it. The argument that people don't understand isn't a valid one with Arch.
Full ACK.
If they want to use a helper without taking care about anything on their own, they could configure their helper to skip the PGP check.
At least yaourt provides an option.
$ man yaourtrc | grep MAKEPKG -A1 MAKEPKG="makepkg" Specify the makepkg binary to use with yaourt
I don't know if it's possible to use
MAKEPKG="makepkg --skippgpcheck"
but at least using a wrapper
MAKEPKG="makepkg-skip-pgp-chek-wrapper"
would be possible.
Let alone that a makepkg wrapper skript could check the PKGBUILD and download all required keys automatically. This doesn't require programming skills, just a simple script. I'm against downloading keys automatically, but this perhaps would be better, than to skip PGP verification.