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

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 08:03 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> 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).
> 
Sounds entirely reasonable to me; -server might choose to retain it, but
they don't have trackerd.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
Ubuntu Development Manager
scott at ubuntu.com
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