[packagekit] This dialog sucks

[Adrien BUSTANY]

Le 22/04/2009 11:08, James Westby a écrit :
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 09:50 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>    
>> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 12:09 -0400, Jon McCann wrote:
>>      
>>> Firstly, this dialog should never - ever - appear when installing
>>> updates from the update viewer.  No excuses.  Updates should not
>>> appear in the list unless they are trusted.
>>>        
>> Agree. The only case this will not be true is when the distro changes
>> the signing key mid-release, which shouldn't even happen (although
>> happened to Fedora in F9, but that's the exception to prove the
>> rule...).
>>      
>
> Then why not almost remove the dialog altogether.
>
> If this will only be shown in a huge event such as the F9 one, then
> you could instead pop up a dialog that says. Something has apparently
> gone very wrong, and point to a web page that the repo owner specifies.
>    
No, it can also happen the first time you install a package from an 
external repository, for example Livna on Fedora. I think John's point 
was that a package installed from the officiel Fedora repo shouldn't be 
updated with a version from Livna...
> That web page could then explain what the issue is and how to deal with
> it, and if there is a need to change the signing key it could explain
> that and tell the user how to change the signing key associated with
> the repo through another dialog.
>
> Third-party repositories may kill the idea, but just allowing the user
> to blindly click and carry on seems like it could be avoided. If the
> only reasons that a user would see this are someone trying to compromise
> their system, or some huge event that can be co-ordinated by the
> repository owner, then we should be able to do better.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
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