Hello.
I'm preparing packages for mlocate, and personally I would like to
upload it with Priority: standard. But I'm open to be convinced that is
not a good idea (eg. "standard is already bloated").
I think having a working /usr/bin/locate is a reasonable expectation for
a Linux system nowadays, so the priority level would fit. I am aware of
course that findutils already provides one implementation, and it's
Priority: required...
However, I would very much like to have a *better* implementation
installed by default, and I think mlocate would be very appropriate for
the job:
* as slocate, it runs and root instead of nobody in order to index all
files, but keeps it's database mode 640 root:mlocate, and a setgid
binary /usr/bin/locate in order to only return results the running
user has access to
*and*
* mlocate keeps timestamps in its database, so when running updatedb
it can determine if the contents of a directory have changed without
having to read its contents; this makes the update faster, and less
demanding on the harddist (that's where the name comes from, "merge
locate")
mlocate is written by a RedHat person, is maintained upstream (unlike,
it seems, slocate), and if I'm not mistaken is already default in Fedora.
Opinions?
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