Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote:
> 4.1. Details:
> GNU findutils is an opensource package which provides utilities to
> find files meeting specified criteria and perform various actions on
> the files which are found. This package contains 'find', 'xargs', and
> 'locate'.
>
> GNU find is faster than Solaris find and has more functions, it was a
> cleanroom implementation. And even has xargs funcionality built inside,
> but xargs is also kept separate for convenience.
>
> There is another project delivering slocate: LSARC 2008/447
> Which is the secure version of locate. So locate won't be delivered
> with findutils.
Doesn't that violate the principle of the familiarity projects? Users know
about locate, ask us often for a locate command - if there is no command in
the path named locate, then we've failed to provide familiarity.
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