update-db cron job: solving a long-standing issue

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Milan [2007-09-15 16:54 +0200]:
> We can also think (and this is my opinion ;-) ) that the locate command
> is only used by advanced users that now how to install slocate in two
> minutes, and thus that we don't need to install it by default. Newbies
> don't use locate in a terminal, but Tracker in GNOME. 

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).

With command-not-found, it is also very easy to see what's wrong when
the 'locate' command is not available and the package needs to be
installed.

Can you please file a bug about this, so that we can track it?

Martin
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