Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> writes: > 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. I'm not nitpicking; I think shared systems are still common enough that this is one of several reasons why we should install a locate implementation by default. > When I think of hardware running Debian in 2021, > I am thinking of a Raspberry Pi running on an SD card. Every person is different. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
