On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 12:02:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 11:13:10PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > >>... > >> users on > >> shared systems can expect it to be available without asking an > >> administrator > >> first. To me, locate has always been a standard tool on a UNIX system, so > >> it > >> makes sense to install it by default. > >>... > > > "Shared systems" have become pretty rare. > > They've become *rarer*, but they're still very common in the academic and > scientific research world.
Let's not nitpick over words, I assume we can both agree that they still exist but are a much smaller share of Unix-like systems than 30 years ago. When I think of hardware running Debian in 2021, I am thinking of a Raspberry Pi running on an SD card. cu Adrian
