Source packages appropriate by default?

Gavin Guo gavin.guo at canonical.com
Thu May 23 08:21:52 UTC 2013


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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Daniel J Blueman <daniel at quora.org> wrote:

> 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?
>
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