Re: mlocate - what is it good for?

2019-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:32:24AM +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > On 2019-05-22 20:59, Brian Murray wrote: > > So we ended up questioning the usefulness of installing mlocate by > > default on systems at all. We believe that find is an adequate > > replacement for mlocate but want to hear from

Re: mlocate - what is it good for?

2019-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 03:13:49PM -0400, Little Girl wrote: > Hey there, > Steve Langasek wrote: > >I don't think the benefit of having locate available by default > >justifies the daily disk thrashing / energy usage on every Ubuntu > >machine everywhere. > Just curious, but how bad (or excessi

Re: mlocate - what is it good for?

2019-05-24 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey Steve, Le 24/05/2019 à 00:33, Steve Langasek a écrit : >> Takes over 30 seconds (on a machine which not doing any other work) >> where mlocate takes around 1 second on the same machine... and I do >> personally find 30 seconds to be too long. > I agree that 30 seconds is too long, but as a use

Socket-activated PackageKit debconf helper in eoan

2019-05-24 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Hi folks, I just switched the debconf helper in eoan that shows prompts in PackageKit to be run as a socket-activated service. Now, it's time to do some testing. So please, install some packages using DebConf (after starting the helper, see caveats), and monitor the journalctl --user-unit pk-deb