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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

Andrew,

I assure you that I always read carefully before I reply, so whenever you feel
that I don't pay attention, please move on. My argument revolves around not
supporting configurations that update at will and provide no means of
identifying which code went into a particular build. Any sysadmin worth their
salt would not even talk to packager who proposes such wild idea, simply
because it's as *unpredictable* as it can get. Do you realize that users
updating at different times of day in their locale will have potentially
different source code? Users will never make this choice consciously.

Sergey.

Quoting "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>:

> > >- spell asks if it should automatically update everytime sorcery
> > >  queue/system-update is run (only for cvs/svn/... versions)
> > >
> > >
> > I would like to vote against automatic update and VERSION=$(date). The
> > only use for this is if one is a developer and is testing every
> > incremental change. Such spells must go into private grimoires or
> > whatever else, but into supported grimoires. There's no way we can
> > provide *support* for such spells.
>
> Next time read carefully. The user will be asked if he wants to use
> automatic updating or not.