Re: Proposal: plocate as standard for bookworm
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 07:28:56PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> I very dimly remember updatedb being a concern when cloud images were
> first discussed. Back then and today, agreed, it does not make sense
> there.
Agreed, but we don't install all Priority: standard packages on the
cloud images anyway, and I don't see us going out of our way to add it
to them even if plocate is promoted to standard.
> IMO, it makes sense on both servers and desktops, so rather than
> through tasksel, I would think it's a useful default to have on all
> non-virtual installations.
Personally I'd rather leave it out of the default install, and I really
don't like the idea of running it on servers by default. First, the
additional IO may impact serving latencies. Second, because servers
(except maybe multi-user shell servers, but they're not the general
case) are purpose-built systems, and the locate utility really doesn't
contribute anything to the system's purpose.
noah
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