Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 2/6/21 6:10 PM, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

> I believe a good, fast locate is something that we should have in our base
> install; it is fine to keep it out of the cloud image (as today), but it is
> genuinely useful for both desktops and servers, and with a low cost.

seconded, thanks for writing plocate!

> Thoughts?

I think plocate should have a Conflicts: mlocate. There is no need to
install two locate implementations in parallel, it will just create
useless IO.


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