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.



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