Hi, I'm kind of late to this thread, but I'd like to add my opinion. Personally, I think we have to many entries in sources.list. Anyone suggesting that there is little cost to entries simply hasn't tested things. There is a very real cost to having unused entries, in bandwidth, load on a proxy/mirror and local cpu time.
Thanks to 'chdist', you can quite easily test this, and in my research for LP: #1177432 (cloud-images do not have backports), I've written a simple helper for that at https://gist.github.com/smoser/5586288 . I don't want to start a flame war over what exactly should be in and what should not. What I want to suggest is that we have tools to easily let the user specify things. 'apt-add-repository' has been ubiquitous and is insanely useful. I just now noticed that bug 997371 (Create command to add "multiverse" and "-backports" to apt sources) is now marked Fix-Released, and was in quantal. I think we should continue on this trend and improve it so that apt-sources management is very easy. Then, we can turn this thread into: Subject: document apt-add-repository "sources" Scott On Tue, 21 May 2013, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 21.05.2013, 09:31 -0700 schrieb Dylan McCall: > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Dale Amon <a...@vnl.com> wrote: > > > Source is an educational tool. > > > Learning command line is a lesson in taking control of your own computer. > > > Kids explore. > > > > > > Make sure J Random's computer is full of things to intrigue and > > > lead a 13 year old to the power of the source. > > > > Personally, I use apt-get source for one thing: the little note that > > tells me which bzr branch I can use, instead. (There's probably a > > better command for that, but I don't know what it is). > > You might want to use debcheckout from the devscripts package. > > -- > Benjamin Drung > Debian & Ubuntu Developer > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
