mlocate - what is it good for?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2019-05-22 20:59, Brian Murray wrote:
> So we ended up questioning the usefulness of installing mlocate by
> default on systems at all. We believe that find is an adequate
> replacement for mlocate but want to hear from you about use cases
> where it may not be.

As a volunteer contributor and involved in support, I tend to use 
locate() very often, and find() so seldom that I have to look up the 
syntax everytime. If mlocate would be dropped from default, it would be 
one of the first package I'd install when doing a fresh install.

Suitable to be added to ubuntu-dev-tools?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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