Maybe don't auto-generate keys?

[michaelpj]

Given that

1. There is a command to create keys
2. There is a way to build without keys
3. Building with a freshly created set of keys is rarely what you want

I think it would be reasonable to not automatically generate keys. It mostly makes it easier to do 3 by accident, which is rarely what you want.

[michaelpj]

Brainstorming: perhaps we should flip the polarity and not sign by default, unless you explicitly say to do so.

Then we'd want a way to prevent people from forgetting, maybe we want a repo.toml in the root that specifies whether the repo is supposed to be secure or not. Then it's all very explicit.

[andreabedini]

perhaps we should flip the polarity and not sign by default, unless you explicitly say to do so.

I think this is a good idea. To be fair, I thought signatures were required when I first started working on this.

[andreabedini]

@michaelpj see https://github.com/andreabedini/foliage/pull/23

[bgamari]

Yes, I agree that automatic key generation should not be enabled by default. This behavior has lead to some very surprising bugs in my experience.