* Michael Catanzaro:

> On Tue, Nov 14 2023 at 08:16:39 AM -0500, Christopher
> <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> I think for the sake of security, it'd be better if this were on by
>> default, and you just had to specify the --nogpgcheck
>> For convenience, the error message should probably say "Error: GPG
>> check FAILED (try again with '--nogpgcheck' to ignore)"
>> I don't think this use case is so important that everybody's security
>> should be lowered to avoid the minor inconvenience of passing a simple
>> flag.
>
> Thing is, when manually installing RPMs that don't come from a
> repository, 98% of the time they are not expected to be signed by a
> GPG key that you have installed, so the check is expected to fail. GPG
> check is just not the right thing to do in this case. If we enable GPG
> checking when not appropriate, ***we will train users to reflexively
> ignore GPG errors.***

We already trained them to use -y, which can automatically enroll new
keys.  I'm not sure if a trust boundary is crossed in that case, but if
there isn't, why is user confirmation even needed?

Thanks,
Florian
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