Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, Petri Rosenström did opine thusly:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Jacques Montier > > <jacques.mont...@numericable.fr> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > slocate is now masked and will be removed. > > As i often used locate to easily find packages, what else could i run ? > > Thank you for your answers, > > > > cheers, > > > > > > -- > > Jacques > > Site web <https://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/> > > I got the following message when updating. > > No longer developed and replaced by sys-apps/mlocate > > So I would emerge mlocate > > Best regards > Petri You will also need to re-run updatedb (this will take a while) and delete /var/lib/slocate/ - it is now useless as mlocate uses /var/lib/mlocate/ -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com