'updatedb' : is it really mandatory, can I switch it off and how ?!

[Lex Hider]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 12:25 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 21:50:32 -0500, JohnOfArc <yustabeme at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:45:55 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > 
> Thanks for the heads up.
> 
> So why isn't anacron used instead of cron noawadays?
> 
This has been discussed already:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2004-November/001152.html

http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mako/ubuntu-traffic/u20041119_13.html#2

It appears it's going to be part of hoary's desktop:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~cjwatson/seeds/hoary/desktop

Lex.