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Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm



Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> writes:
> 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.

They've become *rarer*, but they're still very common in the academic and
scientific research world.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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