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Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm



On Feb 06, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@debian.org> wrote:

> mlocate used to be Priority: standard; for some reason that I haven't been
> able to unearth (despite the efforts of several people), there is now an
Probably because long ago it replaced locate from findutils which used 
to be standard too.

> release and non-release architectures. The only non-Essential dependencies
> are liburing1 (33 kB) and libzstd1 (670 kB).
libzstd1 is already a dependency of apt, so no big deal.

> I believe a good, fast locate is something that we should have in our base
> install; it is fine to keep it out of the cloud image (as today), but it is
> genuinely useful for both desktops and servers, and with a low cost.
I agree.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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