Source packages appropriate by default?

[Benjamin Drung]

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?

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer