Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm
Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 12:02:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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.
> Let's not nitpick over words, I assume we can both agree that they still
> exist but are a much smaller share of Unix-like systems than 30 years ago.
I'm not nitpicking; I think shared systems are still common enough that
this is one of several reasons why we should install a locate
implementation by default.
> When I think of hardware running Debian in 2021,
> I am thinking of a Raspberry Pi running on an SD card.
Every person is different.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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