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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:37:44PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> 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.

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.

Seth

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