* Juhapekka Tolvanen [Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:19:19 +0300]:
> If somebody wants to install both texmacs and mlocate, he ends up
> installing two (2) implementation of locate.
Ok, this is the problem, not what the subjet says. I also think
important is an inflated severity, but alas, I'm not the texmacs
maintainer.
> Did you read Description of mlocate?:
Heh, I wrote it.
> In addition installing texmacs forces user to say goodbye to security.
> Also this is from Description of mlocate:
> "it indexes all the filesystem, but results of a search will
> only include files that the user running locate has access to. It does
> this by updating the database as root, but making it unreadable for
> normal users, who can only access it via the locate binary. slocate does
> this as well, but not the original locate."
> But texmacs forces to install some insecure implementation of locate.
No, "locate" is not an insecure implementation. (It just can't index
stuff that the "nobody" user can't read.)
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