Package: texmacs Severity: normal
-- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash It is rude that texmacs depends on locate. Locate (or the alternatives that provide it) cause a cron job to crawl all over the whole file system, which on some systems that have many disks attached is inappropriate. It is surprising that installing texmacs would cause another package to be installed which would cause a daily episode of disk activity that walks every mounted file system. I doubt there is any good reason for this package to "Depend:" on locate. The "locate | findutils (<< 4.2.32-2)" should be moved to "Suggests:" or removed entirely. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
