On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 10:16:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > locate is a purely user-facing tool, > not really usable for portable scripting, since neither its presence nor > its functioning can be assumed.
Really? Basic functionality is the same between locate.findutils, mlocate and plocate. Its presence can be resolved by... well, making it Priority: standard. :-) > Many users won't even know it exists > (locate has far fewer users than find), and for all of those non-users, > the effort spent building the database will go entirely to waste. Sure, but that waste is fairly small. On a typical system, you're using a few seconds every night. > Furthermore, any mechanism they use to configure one of them > (e.g. for privacy or performance reasons) will not control the other, > and again they may well be unaware of the existence of the other one. I'm not sure what privacy reasons you're referring to? I'm not aware that neither mlocate/plocate nor e.g. tracker will leak data across users. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
