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Kevin Monceaux (Kevin AT RawFedDogs.net) wrote [08.11.11 15:25]:
> 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.

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't contact upstream first. SMGL is
one of the few distros that tries to stay loyal to upstream. Most other
distros don't even bat an eyelash at patching upstream packages to fit
their whims. If you need evidence of this, look to the butchering of the
udev rules file syntax in different distros as an example.

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Justin "flux_control" Boffemmyer
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