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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by lmm on Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:53AM (#9427113)
It gives people a way to choose the level of security they care about. Those who are willing to trust HTTPS can trust HTTPS. Those who aren't can obtain the GPG key and check its signature by another mechanism (WoT) and manually verify the package signature.
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by acveilleux on Friday April 24, 2015 @11:46AM (#9434106)
Those who would go out of their way to do the GPG check are also the same people who are horrified by `curl .... | sudo bash`
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by lmm on Sunday April 26, 2015 @06:09AM (#9441214)
Yes, that's the point. Those who aren't horrified can do that. Those who are can get the package "by hand" and do the GPG check themselves.
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