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.