Suggest commenting-out deb-src lines in default /etc/apt/sources.list
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt-setup (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
During a trial install of 11.10 (oneiric) today almost 23MB of sources listings are downloaded (based on "du -csh /var/lib/
I suggest commenting out these lines by default to improve the speed of installation, marginally reduce disk space requirements, reduce bandwidth use both at install time and each day in the future, and to reduce load on mirrors.
(I couldn't find a package that owns /etc/apt/
Thanks for your report. My thoughts on this are in bug 74747.