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 least since we're using the latest releases and have large quota/bandwidth hard and mobile lines; general users don't know about package sources to give the feedback, so I think this is a justifiable case... On 20 May 2013 23:21, J Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 May 2013 16:09, Daniel J Blueman <dan...@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? >> >> Daniel >> -- >> Daniel J Blueman >> > > In theory, the only time a large download is made for a full release > is the initial repo source update. From then on, only the -updates and > -security package lists should be changing with any frequency, and > their sizes will be much smaller. > > With the development release (U+1) having source repos enabled is > perfectly reasonable. People running this are either developers or > have enough understanding to disable their deb-src. > > If you are installing Ubuntu and finding this a frustration across > several installations then editing the sources.list after installation > (before the first sources update) might work well. You could even host > a prepared version ready to wget straight to the new system. > > J > > -- > 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 -- Daniel J Blueman -- 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
