The mentioned Debian bug #880507 is one of the advantages of moving from cron to systemd units -see proposed unit file in [1]. The timers in systemd are really perfect for this...
I use locate all the time. I really like how much simpler it is then find. I don't have to think to usually get what I'm looking for. I'm going to experiment with using grep <filename> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list as the majority of files I run locate for are from packages.. >From a product perspective it does make sense to remove: * Desktop has tracker installed by default. The majority of users will use that instead as it's integrated with the GUI. * The majority of cloud/server deployments aren't interactive these days. It's a waste there. They key group I can see wanting it are developers - who can install it. My 2 cents, Bryan [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882993 On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:09 PM Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > The Ubuntu Foundations team was recently looking at an issue with > mlocate[1] and the effect it has on all users of Ubuntu. While that > specific issue is fixable there are also issues[2,3] with keeping > PRUNEFS and PRUNEPATHS current in updatedb.conf. So we ended up > questioning the usefulness of installing mlocate by default on systems > at all. We believe that find is an adequate replacement for mlocate but > want to hear from you about use cases where it may not be. I'll start > with a personal example: > > "I don't remember (because I need to know so infrequently) where the > meta-release file is cached on disk by update-manager and use locate to > find it. The find command itself is inadequate because the cached file > exists in both /home and /var." > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880507 > [2] http://launchpad.net/bugs/827841 > [3] http://launchpad.net/bugs/1823518 > > Thanks, > -- > Brian Murray > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >
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