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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

Isn't findutils part of basesystem?  If so, I think we can just rename 
mlocate's locate to mlocate and slocate's locate to slocate to avoid a 
conflict.

Seth

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:58:25PM -0500, flux wrote:
> Kevin Monceaux (Kevin AT RawFedDogs.net) wrote [08.11.11 09:26]:
> > I'd be happy to continue working on mlocate.  It's its conflict with 
> > findutils, and my brief switch back to Gentoo, that caused me to put it 
> > on 
> > the back burner.
> 
> Glad you will still be working on it. :-D
> 
> > As others have pointed out, any approach one takes to remove locate from 
> > findutils deviates from findutils' upstream.  On the other hand, 
> > mlocate's 
> > upstream conflicts with part of findutils' upstream.  Should mlocate be 
> > avoided because of that, or should users be given the choice of using 
> > locate or mlocate as they see fit?  Of course, since SMGL likes to give 
> > users choices, maybe there should be a slocate spell also.
> 
> Can slocate or mlocate provide all the tools that findutils does? If
> either provides more than just "locate", then I would say it would be a
> good idea to create a spell for slocate and have it CONFLICTS with
> findutils. To my knowledge, only findutils provides 'find' etc.
> Otherwise, we will have to give users the option of hacking the locate
> out of findutils and going down the messy road. Perhaps we can create a
> patch to submit upstream that will disentangle locate from findutils
> (like a --disable-locate configure option or similar). If you get
> upstream to separate them, then we can safely separate them without
> having to break from what upstream does.
> 
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