On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:12:45AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:09:48PM +0200, Nikolaus Schulz wrote: > > it would be really nice if dlocate could work with slocate/mlocate. A > > quick look at the script suggests that at least slocate is supported, > > but nonetheless dlocate depends on the findutils locate. > > please read the old bug reports before submitting a new one.
Hm, these reports have meanwhile been archived. > this has been asked before and the answer is that it is impossible. [...] > > So I cannot remove the latter and switch to mlocate, for example, > > without removing dlocate. > > mlocate and locate can co-exist on the same system. they don't conflict. > there is no need to remove locate just to install mlocate. No, but then disabling the useless daily updatedb run requires some more fiddling. Although documented in locate's README.Debian, at least. I would like to suggest adding a README to dlocate as well, answering this FAQ, perhaps pointing to #454106, and making explicit that disabling the daily updatedb run does *not* hamper dlocate's functionality. Something that I find not obvious after quickly reading the bug reports you mentioned. Nikolaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
