> 
> It is intentional that --yes/-y does not allow unauthenticated packages;
> this is considered a dangerous, unexpected action which should not happen
> automatically.
> 
> --force-yes will override this (as well as a number of other situations),
> and --allow-unauthenticated will override only this particular check.

Looks like what I was missing was some sort of documentation of the
--allow-unauthenticated option then - if I had found that in the man
page I would have had no reason to file the bug :-)

Thanks,
                                        Andrew McMillan.

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