Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

Benny Amorsen benny+usenet at amorsen.dk
Wed Apr 2 21:31:10 UTC 2008


"Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta at gmail.com> writes:

> Who you prefer that yum grow its own gpg implementation in order to
> correctly verify the gpg signatures on packages?

Needing 7 packages for something as simple as checking a gpg signature
seems excessive to me. Of course they give me the ability to make
signatures and even securely type in a key, which is nice if you
happen to need that.

> Why is code reuse sad?

It isn't. Code reuse is good.


/Benny





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