[SM-Discuss] Anyone interested in a mlocate spell?

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Mon Nov 17 19:24:07 EST 2008


Quoting seth at swoolley.homeip.net:
> Findutils was there first.
>
> Probably the best thing would be to make findutils install locate as
> findutils-locate and then POST_INSTALL a symlink.
>
> When mlocate or slocate are installed, set the correct symlink.
>
> I think we should standardize on an answer that can be referred to as a
> general policy.  Normally we just set them as conflicting, but for
> basesystem findutils, that's not doable, so we need to come to an
> agreement that has to violate our principle of upstream sanctity one way
> or the other.

Our accepted default would be findutils and it's locate.

-sandalle

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