On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Lee <lee...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/01/2011 13:42, David Cantrell wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Chris Marshall wrote: >>> >>> For me, setting AUTOMATED_TESTING is not agreement >>> that anything goes for tests. If a module needs to >>> access the network for testing, it should ask >>> the user. >> >> There are already plenty of modules that will hit the network if it's >> set, and even that will do so regardless of whether it's set. > > That other people are breaking a law is no defence in court. > > A default of not accessing the network is polite, and as someone already > pointed out, prevents possible alarms ringing (and sessions timing out).
What about introducing a new environment variable and running the network test automatically only if that flag is present? Gabor
