Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On su, 2008-02-24 at 17:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Ian's original wording deals with more edge cases, such as apt's >> sources.list (which is not turned off by default, at least by >> definitions of default that I'm comfortable with). > That's true, and I think Ian's right. I don't, however, consider apt to > be phoning home. That's a gut feeling, and it may be based just on the > fact that apt has been around for so long. I suppose that apt never updates itself unless you have something configured to do so (although does synaptic default to running aptitude update periodically?). But at least in theory Debian could track all sorts of interesting information about users based on what packages they download and when. We *don't*, of course, but companies who software does similar things do so. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]