On 20 May 2013 18:02, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
>
> On May 20, 2013 8:10 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" 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
On Monday, May 20, 2013 11:25:50 AM Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Scott Kitterman
wrote:
> > 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 repositor
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:25:50AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> I'm more surprised that people are more upset about 4MB than the 5%
> that is still claimed by the system for the system which adds up to a
> lot more than 4MB on some systems which on a even a small 32GB SSD is
> what, 1.5GB?
In th
On May 20, 2013 8:10 AM, "Daniel J Blueman" 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 on
Excerpts from Daniel J Blueman's message of 2013-05-20 08:09:19 -0700:
> 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
> automat
Hi Daniel (2013.05.20_18:07:43_+0200)
> Updating 12.04, the universe sources are an extra 4MB (almost 25%
> extra) downloaded whenever a package is changed.
The release pockets aren't changed post-release.
So it's a one-time download, and a continual extra overhead on
-security, -updates, and -ba
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 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 sourc
On 20 May 2013 17:16, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> What happens when you run "apt-get source" with disabled apt-src
> entries?
>
A reasonable error message:
"E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list"
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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
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
I'm talking in the context of the average user, so releases. Fine for
pre-release.
Updating 12.04, the universe sources are an extra 4MB (almost 25%
extra) downloaded whenever a package is changed. Does it really make
sense when 0.1% of people actually need this?
Us developers probably care the l
On 20 May 2013 16:09, Daniel J Blueman 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 da
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 w
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