On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:29:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 25, Josip Rodin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You curiously omitted the quote of the important part - one shouldn't
> > automatically update configuration files, but if it was a data file,
> > one could.
> This is not correct: a package should not, but users can and do it.
For a lot of practical purposes, and I'd wager to guess most purposes in
general, people want an up-to-date list of public whois servers, which isn't
a local matter like local server settings (which are indeed normally put in
configuration files in /etc), but something more akin to tzdata updates, or
clamav/spamassassin updates.
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