On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:27 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I fully agree. Installing *two* search tools by default is too much. > > We probably should not uninstall locate on upgrades, but we should not > > put it into new installations. One is painful enough (although they do > > not server the same purpose: locate only indexes file names, while > > tracker indexes your entire file system, which is much more > > heavyweight). > > The idea of removing locate annoys me. I've spent too much time in past > jobs fighting broken commercial Unix systems that decided to break (or > didn't bother to test) standard Unix tools like man and locate. If > you're working with a variety of different systems then this sort of > thing is a real pain. > > Can we not come up with a way to generate the locate database from > tracker instead?
I prefer this too. I also think it is good to think about newbies, but is it really necessary to ignore more advanced users just because they know what they're looking for? I know I would be annoyed if locate was missing on my server. Mark Schouten aka Jeeves_ -- 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
