Source packages appropriate by default?

[Daniel J Blueman]

>From earlier feedback, there were no overriding reasons why package
sources should be enabled by default.

We not only save congestion on security.ubuntu.com, but quite a lot of
country-level mirrors point to Canonical's servers, which are
relatively distant and slow (~80KB/s from here), so this is a win.

So, what's the path to change this?

On 21 May 2013 22:04, J Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 May 2013 13:55, Robie Basak <robie.basak at canonical.com> wrote:
>> What if we provided a reasonable message if no deb-src lines are
>> defined, with a single simple command to add them and run "apt-get
>> update" for you?
>
> I don't think it would even need that - software-properties (Software
> & Updates) already has the necessary checkbox. All that is needed to
> enable sources is to tick that box.
>
>> From a technical point of view, does mirroring the deb lines into
>> deb-src lines work in all cases? Would doing so break anything?
>
> This is effectively what Software Sources does under-the-hood.
>
> I have to agree, if the amount being downloaded is not trivial (which
> I thought it was) then there's no need to have them enabled by default
> when it's very easy to turn them on. One of the first things I do on
> any new install is disable those that aren't needed.
>
> Jonathon
>
> (to the list this time)
>
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