It was always my impression that Ubuntu was a binary package distro and that developer sources for various packages were supplied in separate sources repos, if required.
It seems that my sources.list file is littered with source repos. Indeed, if adding a package repository via update manager preferences, it automatically includes the sources repo into my sources.list.
This is killing my update times and leads me to believe that my apt sources.list is very wrong indeed.
My question is:
- are the source repositories required for anybody who just wants to run software and not compile it themselves?