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[Kevin Monceaux <Kevin AT RawFedDogs.net>]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, flux wrote:

> 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.

I haven't dug too deep yet but from the searching I've done it also 
looks to me like findutils is the only package that provides find, etc. 
I'll keep digging.

> 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.

The impression I get from the few Google searches I've done today is that 
many distros are moving towards mlocate, or slocate.  I'd be surprised if 
at least some of them hadn't already tried to get findutils upstream to 
separate locate from findutils.  I've looked at Gentoo's finduitls ebuild 
and Arch's findutils PKGBUILD and they both just remove locate/updatedb 
"by hand."  I'll dig through findutils bug reports to see if it's already 
been requested and rejected.  If not, maybe it's worth a shot to try 
requesting they and a configure option or similar way to disable locate.



Kevin
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