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  • From: Kevin Monceaux <Kevin AT RawFedDogs.net>
  • To: Source Mage Discuss Mailing List <SM-Discuss AT Lists.IBiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Anyone interested in a mlocate spell?
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:37:44 -0600 (CST)

Seth,

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, seth AT swoolley.homeip.net wrote:

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.

mlocate and/or slocate's updatedb would also need to be renamed, and perhaps their config files. By default mlocate's updatedb uses /etc/updatedb.conf, which is the same as findutils' updatedb uses.

Of course, we should probably consider that mlocate and slocate's upstream choose to use the same names, locate and updatedb, as findutils does so their packages would be drop-in replacement for the locate/updatedb from findutils and so users could use the same commands without having to think about which locate package their distro is using. It could be argued that if one tries to hard to keep findutils' upstream in tact, they are going against slocate and/or mlocate's upstream wishes.


Kevin
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