On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 11:13:10PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >... > users on > shared systems can expect it to be available without asking an administrator > first. To me, locate has always been a standard tool on a UNIX system, so it > makes sense to install it by default. >... "Shared systems" have become pretty rare. And there are now also many non-technical Linux users who have never used a shell. cu Adrian