Re: [PATCH 2/4] emacs: Add 'guix-devel-download-package-source'.

[Alex Kost]

Ian Denhardt (2015-10-07 22:15 +0300) wrote:

> What about just having command line (non-emacs) tool? I'm thinking
> something inspired by Archlinux's `makepkg -g`, which downloads the
> sources based on the current build script and outputs something that can
> just be copied into it. I don't feel I have the full picture re: how
> that interacts with the macro's checking, but we could fall back on the
> user supplying URLs.

IIUC such a tool would also have the same problem (an incentive not to
check signatures).

-- 
Alex