On Sun, 06 Jul 2008, +20:26:40 EEST (UTC +0300),
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed some keys:
> * Adeodato Simó [Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:37:05 +0100]:
>
> > * Juhapekka Tolvanen [Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:22:49 +0300]:
>
> > > texmacs depends on some locate-implementations, but mlocate can not be
> > > used.
>
> > texmacs has a Dependency on the "locate" package, so I'm not very sure
> > what the "important" bug is here...
>
> Oh, and it should be co-installable with mlocate. If not, that's a bug,
> but I don't think that's the case.
If somebody wants to install both texmacs and mlocate, he ends up
installing two (2) implementation of locate. Did you read Description of
mlocate?:
"instead of re-reading all the contents of all directories each
time the database is updated, mlocate keeps timestamp information in its
database and can know if the contents of a directory changed without
reading them again. This makes updates much faster and less demanding on
the hard drive. This feature is only found in mlocate."
That wonderful feature is practically lost, if user of mlocate installs
texmacs: texmacs depends on some not-so-advanced implementations of
locate, that put useless stress on hard-drive. Hence, installing both
mlocate and some lousy implementation of locate is stupid, stupid and
once again stupid.
In addition installing texmacs forces user to say goodbye to security.
Also this is from Description of mlocate:
"it indexes all the filesystem, but results of a search will
only include files that the user running locate has access to. It does
this by updating the database as root, but making it unreadable for
normal users, who can only access it via the locate binary. slocate does
this as well, but not the original locate."
But texmacs forces to install some insecure implementation of locate.
Hence, also that is stupid, stupid and once again stupid.
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