Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Philip Kaludercic]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>> The only real solution that I see is something along the lines of
>> what I recommended: Packages suggest customizations, and
>> package-install may either ignore, ask for confirmation or accept
>> them by default, if there are no problems with what is suggested
>> (eg. collisions).
>
> And that solution cannot be implemented if there is no key space
> reserved for third-party libraries.  Which is what the proposal is
> about.  The proposal is not about the particular mechanisms that could
> be used to bind keys in that reserved area.

I argue it can be done, and that the proposal to have packages suggest
keys to bind would avoid the need to designate a special key space for
third-party packages. That is why I'm brining it up.

-- 
        Philip K.

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