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 -- slocate does not run if mlocate is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236181 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs