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

These things just create more work but little gain for users. I'm 
against this.

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

> > 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.