On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 12:05 AM Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

> It's a pretty thin use-case, but someone could have scripts that call mlocate
> explicitly (not through the locate symlink). Or have something that is
> capable of reading mlocate's database. Or wish to have both to benchmark
> against each other :-) Unfortunately, we don't have an “Anti-Recommends”.

Or wish to transition from mlocate to plocate without doing a full
updatedb run by using the plocate-build script, which reads the
mlocate database and generates a plocate database.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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