* Steinar H. Gunderson <se...@debian.org> [210209 14:27]: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 08:53:10PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > And there are now also many non-technical Linux users who have never > > used a shell. > > Well, why do we include netcat, telnet or hdparm? lsof? pciutils? > traceroute? host? All of these are irrelevant for a non-technical > non-shell user, yet a fairly common part of a Linux installation.
These have come to be expected to be on a typical Linux system by almost every technically-knowledgeable Linux user. Locate does not satisfy that criterion, and I think the dissension in this thread is evidence of that. Most of the ones you mention above might be necessary when trying to fix a broken system. Locate might save a little time, but find, which is standard, will suffice for that purpose. I just tried plocate, and it certainly looks faster to update than mlocate. Thanks for packaging this! I've just removed mlocate. However, I agree with others here that anyone who wants a locate implementation will know how to find all the packages with "locate" in their names and plocate looks to me, from the descriptions, to be the best choice. I don't think it deserves "Priority: standard". ...Marvin