On Fri, 2019-04-12 at 16:29 +0000, Akarshan Biswas wrote:
> Mlocate too. I am not sure why is this package required but It
> tremendously slows down all of my PC(using magnetic disk hard drive).
> The first thing I do after installing Fedora Worstation is to remove
> it.

It only does that *one time*, until it has built its initial database.
After that the db is updated regularly when files appear or disappear,
and much faster. The benefit is you can then run 'locate' at any time
and get a fast response.
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