Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 11:13:10PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >>... >> users on >> shared systems can expect it to be available without asking an administrator >> first. To me, locate has always been a standard tool on a UNIX system, so it >> makes sense to install it by default. >>...
> "Shared systems" have become pretty rare. They've become *rarer*, but they're still very common in the academic and scientific research world. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>