Here are more details. This is a deliberate decision and you can't use the 
alternatives system. 
The discussion about it between Martin Pitt and Colin Watson is at 
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/02/14/%23ubuntu-devel.txt 
The interesting part starts at 10:59 and the decision on how to change the cron 
job was at 11:08

You can talk with the devs about this choice on irc channel #ubuntu-
devel

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slocate does not run if mlocate is installed
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