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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

> 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

Sorry no offense intended.

> 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

Yes that is true.

> updating at different times of day in their locale will have potentially
> different source code? Users will never make this choice consciously.
> 

Well it really depends on the point of view of how lucky a user feels.
I prefer to updated cvs/svn when I want to but some users might like to
be more on the bleeding edge then others... And since it would default to
non-automatic updates I don't think it's such a big problem. But I belive
this should be imlemented so that users have a *choice? in the matter as
I recall our distro is about choice... so every user can choose what he 
would like to have. No matter if it would almost never get used.

And as I have said countless times already any cvs/svn code should have
a warning in PREPARE that explains that this is development code and that
it can potentialy cause damage to the system(hey you never know what's in
it do you). Basicaly something I have in the dri spell which warns
users to be carefull with it. 


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