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
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
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
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
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 utter
On 20 May 2013 17:16, Benjamin Drung bdr...@ubuntu.com 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
J
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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com 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,
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
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
On May 20, 2013 8:10 AM, 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
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 these
On Monday, May 20, 2013 11:25:50 AM Jordon Bedwell wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com
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
On 20 May 2013 18:02, Benjamin Kerensa bkere...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On May 20, 2013 8:10 AM, 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
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