[petsc-dev] I hate nagupgrade

[Jed Brown]

Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
> I don't actually care whether we keep this check. However, I do think
> the arguments advanced so far do not amount to more than prejudice. I
> don't think a security argument holds water 

Security only insofar as urllib could have a vulnerability.  I think
privacy is still a concern.

> for a system that downloads tarballs from other sites without any kind
> of check.

That is opt-in (the user passes --download).
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