Not a good idea. slocates purpose is not just portage. Its used on a running system to allow users to easily and quickly find any file. Hence its run daily as users tend to create/delete files each day.
Your circumstance is not the most common one - not using linux all the time. servers and user systems benefit from these facilities, both for the admin and users in general. I also use a laptop and know what you mean, and would be lost without an up-to-date locate with over 6Gbytes of data files in my home directory - it does slow things down if you dont "nice" it though. BillK On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:06, Steven Elling wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2003 20:01, Brad House wrote: > > Commenting below: > I think the Gentoo team should consider giving the user a way of configuring > packages to not install certain cron jobs upon install. For instance, I ... > Better yet. Why not do some magic in portage to run makewhatis and updatedb > automagically after a world or system update -- maybe as a FEATURES setting > -- and remove the cron jobs altogether. After all, 90% - 99% of the time > files and man pages are only added to Gentoo systems when emerging packages > (Hmm. deja-Vu). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
