Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

[Jussi Peltola]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 02:35:54AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> yeah, but wasn't the original issue that started this thread was that
> the locate database was "too old"?  maybe if locate, apropos, etc would
> print "databse last updated 3 weeks 2 days ago"?
 
This should be done in any case. IMHO it's a bug if they don't complain
loudly, or even refuse to run with a stale database. Stale caches are
evil, even if the man page warns about them.