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On Sun 2010-10-31 19:27:17 UTC+0100, Michal Varga (varga.michal@gmail.com) wrote:

> > UPDATING should probably be amended upstream to correct this...
> > 
> > Regards
> > Andrew
> 
> While I'm certainly no authority on the issue, I think that's the wrong
> approach and generally (really not speaking about any specific case) -
> people, or in this case, system administrators, should know how to
> operate their working environment and don't just blindly enter commands
> "as they found them", without trying to understand what will happen next
> and/or how it will get interpreted.

Indeed - that's why I wrote "probably".  I can imagine arguments for
and against, as you describe...