>From earlier feedback, there were no overriding reasons why package sources should be enabled by default.
We not only save congestion on security.ubuntu.com, but quite a lot of country-level mirrors point to Canonical's servers, which are relatively distant and slow (~80KB/s from here), so this is a win. So, what's the path to change this? On 21 May 2013 22:04, J Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 21 May 2013 13:55, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@canonical.com> wrote: >> What if we provided a reasonable message if no deb-src lines are >> defined, with a single simple command to add them and run "apt-get >> update" for you? > > I don't think it would even need that - software-properties (Software > & Updates) already has the necessary checkbox. All that is needed to > enable sources is to tick that box. > >> From a technical point of view, does mirroring the deb lines into >> deb-src lines work in all cases? Would doing so break anything? > > This is effectively what Software Sources does under-the-hood. > > I have to agree, if the amount being downloaded is not trivial (which > I thought it was) then there's no need to have them enabled by default > when it's very easy to turn them on. One of the first things I do on > any new install is disable those that aren't needed. > > Jonathon > > (to the list this time) > > -- > 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
