Hi, Are there still grounds for keeping slocate in cron.daily for desktop users? At least I'm annoyed by it running on my computers every day, and I always either remove it or move it to cron.monthly for the occasional use. Still, I think there is no GUI for it anyway, and everyone's home directories are now indexed by Tracker, so what's the point?
Also, Fedora has moved from slocate to mlocate [1], which reduces the hard drive burning if locate service is still needed (eg. for servers). Even if slocate is nowadays ionice:d, it still burns the hdd for a considerable amount each time, since it always reindexes the whole disk (unless cached), especially for people who have hundreds of gigabytes of stuff on their hdd. [1] http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/ I'd believe I'm not the only one annoyed by it being included in the default installation. Both moving to mlocate plus moving it to run weekly or removing slocate completely would sound good to me if compared to the current situation, but also I'd like to hear if there are any reasons to keep the current behavior there, still. Ok, just when I was going to send this I thought about another google search, and found a good bug report [2] and a discussion thread from September [3] [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/slocate/+bug/140493 [3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2007-September/001646.html There it looked like it's mainly wanted to be kept on servers. Most people don't use it at all, and the discussing persons on this list are surely of the more advanced type. One of the strongest arguments seems to be just that locate is as standard of a Unix tool like man is, and some long-time user would miss it (which was countered by that it can be easily installed). But Sebastian Bacher's last post [4] mentioned the fact that removing locate would break gnome-search-tools - is that something still relevant with deskbar-applet and Tracker? [4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2007-September/001681.html If locate cannot be removed for hardy, like I stated I'd at least like it to be moved to cron.weekly or cron.monthly on desktop installations and replaced with mlocate (already packaged in Debian and Ubuntu) as a kind of an emergency measure for all the people frustrated with its indexing. -Timo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
