Re: Debian Noob and MSCORE fonts
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 03:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 06:43:59PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:39:11 -0500
> > "c. marlow" <chris@marlows.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello c.,
> >
> > >Ok I removed the ones that said SOURCE CODE
> >
> > They're handy to have. It wasn't the wisest move to delete them so
> > reinstate them.
>
> I disagree, you can quite happily remove/comment out the deb-src entries
> and I reckon 99.9% of the users wouldn't even notice. It saves
> bandwidth, mirror load, and downloading unnecessary stuff to your computer.
>
> I don't have any deb-src entries and I have compiled stuff without any
> problem, also if you do do something that requires a deb-src entry, you
> will get an appropriate message saying so.
>
> IOW, I advocate leaving them out.
Good point!
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