On Monday, May 20, 2013 06:16:53 PM Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Montag, den 20.05.2013, 23:09 +0800 schrieb Daniel J Blueman: > > When installing Ubuntu, I always see the source packages enabled by > > default. > > > > For all the general users I install Ubuntu for (including servers), > > it's an utter waste of bandwidth for everyone, particularly when > > automatically checking once a day. This is amplified eg in schools > > without transparent webcaches etc. > > > > Anyone get the same feeling that we should have source packages an opt-in? > > I agree that we should disable the apt-src entries by default. It's easy > to enable the apt-src entries for a developer. > > What happens when you run "apt-get source" with disabled apt-src > entries?
Apt will error out that it can't find the package. I think that if we are distributing binaries, we should (perhaps must, I'm not sure) enable the source repositories in order to , as a free software distribution, provide the source that goes with the binaries we distribute. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
