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diff --git a/specs/glider-spec.txt b/specs/glider-spec.txt
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@@ -120,9 +120,14 @@
these packages will be platform-dependent: they could be pkg
files on OSX, MSI files on Win32, RPMs or DEBs on Linux, and
so on. Glider should query the user for permission to start
- installing packages, then install the packages. (All other
+ installing packages, then install the packages. All other
steps should generally happen automatically, in the
- background, without needing user intervention.)
+ background, without needing user intervention. This part
+ needs user intervention because (A) it isn't nice to install
+ updates without permission, and (B) in some configurations,
+ it needs administrator privileges.
+
+ (NO OTHER PART of this design needs administrator privileges.)
1.1. The repository
@@ -323,7 +328,7 @@
used to sign documents. The type determines the interpretation of
KEYVAL.
- The ID of a key is the type field concatenated with the SHA-256
+ The ID of a key is a two-element list of the type and the SHA-256
hash of the canonical encoding of the KEYVAL field.
We define one keytype at present: 'rsa'. The KEYVAL in this case