Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 10:16:29PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> locate is a purely user-facing tool,
> not really usable for portable scripting, since neither its presence nor
> its functioning can be assumed.
Really? Basic functionality is the same between locate.findutils, mlocate and
plocate. Its presence can be resolved by... well, making it Priority:
standard. :-)
> Many users won't even know it exists
> (locate has far fewer users than find), and for all of those non-users,
> the effort spent building the database will go entirely to waste.
Sure, but that waste is fairly small. On a typical system, you're using a few
seconds every night.
> Furthermore, any mechanism they use to configure one of them
> (e.g. for privacy or performance reasons) will not control the other,
> and again they may well be unaware of the existence of the other one.
I'm not sure what privacy reasons you're referring to? I'm not aware that
neither mlocate/plocate nor e.g. tracker will leak data across users.
/* Steinar */
--
Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
Reply to: