Comment 8 for bug 74747

Yeah Colin, but you (and the rest of us) are developers who actually care about the source packages ;)

Regardless, the reality of the situation is that the mirrors themselves are clogged; cutting out Sources.gz from the download list of every user doesn't just save them a 4 megabytes to download, it means that everyone else on the mirror gets their Packages.gz that much quicker. More importantly, this bandwidth and time is saved on that all important first use experience.

Now that we have System->Administration->Software Sources, reenabling the package source repos is very easy, moreso then even installing build-essential.

So, anyway, I suggest commenting it out by default. Small sacrifice for us devs ;)