Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

[Jussi Peltola]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:54:49AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 05:57:11AM +0200, Jussi Peltola wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> yeah, but if your computer hasn't been on for 3 weeks and then locate
> won't work because the database is 3 weeks old, that would suck.
 
Of course it would need a switch to force it to run. But I guess a
warning is better since locate might be used in scripts and it's not
good to add extra knobs to existing programs where they don't gain much.