Re: Disabling authentication checks for tests in local Guix checkouts

[Suhail Singh]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> I’m not sure how to integrate it though: in the general case, we
> probably want to keep authentication enabled by default, but how to
> allow users to easily disable it when using a personal checkout?

Could you please elaborate on what the challenge is?

Is the challenge in inferring when they are using a personal checkout?
Would it be a challenge to have the user provide an option instead?
Said option could either be passed in explicitly every-time, or a
command provided to allow the user to set/unset the option (which would
get stored, say, in .git/config under guix "authentication") and the
code updated to read the preference from there.

-- 
Suhail