mlocate - what is it good for?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Steve Langasek wrote:

>I don't think the benefit of having locate available by default
>justifies the daily disk thrashing / energy usage on every Ubuntu
>machine everywhere.

Just curious, but how bad (or excessive or whatever) is this disk
thrashing / energy usage that you mentioned?

>I think it's not onerous for those who want to use locate to
>manually install it the first time they need it on a machine.

Agreed. I'm sure that would be fine.

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Little Girl

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