Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis:
> Let me give an even shorter-term solution: maybe there is a way to mark
> things as risky from a trust perspective when it comes to bootstrapping?
> Maybe we could do something like:
>
> (define-public ghc
> (package
> (name "ghc")
> (version "7.10.2")
> ;; [... bla bla ...]
> (properties '(("bootstrap-untrusted" #t)))))
Why not, but what would be the correspond warning, and the expected
effect?
On one hand, a warning might annoy people since there’s nothing they can
do; on the other hand, it can help raise awareness.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
