Chris Maaskant wrote:
> Op zo, 21-05-2006 te 18:54 +0200, schreef Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
>> Once upon a time, the findutils-locate package provided very similar
>> services. It was dropped because it used too many resources. Then,
>> quite
>> a while later, beagle came, used ten times the resources and everybody
>> either had to be happy or silent.
>> Beagle will happily index gigabytes of my data *while I'm working on
>> battery*. And there is no way to stop it from doing that except
>> mucking
>> with cron or uninstalling beagle. 
> 
> findutils-locate was never dropped, i still use it next to beagle.

Sorry, I meant to write "dropped from default selection".

> I gues you never realy used beagle because of the way you compare it
> with locate.
> It realy isn't the same thing.
> Can you use locate to find a persons name in a email or in a chat log?
> I think not.

You're right. I use seamonkey to search my mail and gaim to search my
chat log. Works for me and I couldn't yet see a reason why I should
run a third app to search my mail and chat log.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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