Thilo: OK, I didn't realise that. I closed this outdated Bug 27918 consequently.
To Thilo and Mark and Scott: You agree that the operation of installing slocate is a piece of cake for an admin or a power user, and even if it is "surprising", it's not an issue for them. We can keep locate on the servers, because of the way they work and of the users that are likely to log on them. Thilo said: > Yes i think also the absence of 'locate' would be suprising to anyone who has > used any distro before. Not anyone, only admins, which are not likely to be afraid. I consider myself as a power user, and I never used locate, because I disabled it and I know that find can do the job when you know in which subtree to look. No standard user will ever wonder "Where did I put that file again?" for a file out of his home, and Tracker is here for it. Furthermore, there's no need to be able to find system files except for admins, which mechanically know how to install slocate. I'm not sure slocate should be connected with Tracker by default, since standard users don't want to be annoyed by system files when searching. We should never keep our admin point of view, but think of newbie Desktop users: I'm often amazed of the problems some simple features can bring about for these users, where I would have solved it in two minutes. As Vincenzo said, "often "dpkg -S" can replace locate": it is true for a significant part of the system files (though not for all of them, or locate wouldn't exist). It's normal that kio-locate is installed by default with kubuntu-desktop, since slocate is too. But we can safely remove kio-locate from kubuntu-desktop deps: $ apt-cache rdepends kio-locate kio-locate Reverse Depends: kubuntu-desktop ichthux-desktop IMHO, the minimum we can do is using ionice and moving (as you said) the cron job to cron.weekly. using rlocate could be good, but this should be investigated more, and this is still something making the system slower, for a void overall interest in most Desktop cases. According to Bugs 134692 and 13671, ionice is not working well at the time, and that would make harder solving the issue. Anyway, I'm glad the debate is raised; whatever the choice will be, it will enhance Ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
