Apparently, though unproven, at 16:44 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly:
> On 17 November 2010 14:00, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 17/11/2010, at 11:31am, Eric Chatellier wrote: > >> Le 17/11/2010 12:30, Jacques Montier a écrit : > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> slocate is now masked and will be removed. > >>> As i often used locate to easily find packages, what else could i run ? > >>> Thank you for your answers > >> > >> Just read mask message : > >> "No longer developed and replaced by sys-apps/mlocate" > > > > I did this the other day. It fixes the large files problem on 32-bit. :D > > > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/183485 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280620 > > > > :D > > Just ran updatedb with mlocate and it was blindingly fast! Is that > normal or did it not run and tricked me! ;-) /usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.23.1/README.bz2 Why do so many people ask questions without reading the docs FIRST? I'm going to start charging a research fee from now on. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com