On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 07:28:56PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > I very dimly remember updatedb being a concern when cloud images were > first discussed. Back then and today, agreed, it does not make sense > there.
Agreed, but we don't install all Priority: standard packages on the cloud images anyway, and I don't see us going out of our way to add it to them even if plocate is promoted to standard. > IMO, it makes sense on both servers and desktops, so rather than > through tasksel, I would think it's a useful default to have on all > non-virtual installations. Personally I'd rather leave it out of the default install, and I really don't like the idea of running it on servers by default. First, the additional IO may impact serving latencies. Second, because servers (except maybe multi-user shell servers, but they're not the general case) are purpose-built systems, and the locate utility really doesn't contribute anything to the system's purpose. noah
