Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

[david@lang.hm]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote:

> On 07/25/2007 07:12 AM, david@lang.hm wrote:
>
> >  On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
>
> > >  It certainly doesn't run for me ever. Always kind of a "that's not the 
> > >  point" comment but I just keep wondering whenever I see anyone complain 
> > >  about updatedb why the _hell_ they are running it in the first place. If 
> > >  anyone who never uses "locate" for anything simply disable updatedb, the 
> > >  problem will for a large part be solved.
> > > 
> > >  This not just meant as a cheap comment; while I can think of a few 
> > >  similar loads even on the desktop (scanning a browser cache, a media 
> > >  player indexing a large amount of media files, ...) I've never heard of 
> > >  problems _other_ than updatedb. So just junk that crap and be happy.
> >
> >  but if you do use locate then the alturnative becomes sitting around and
> >  waiting for find to complete on a regular basis.
>
> Yes, but what's locate's usage scenario? I've never, ever wanted to use it. 
> When do you know the name of something but not where it's located, other than 
> situations which "which" wouldn't cover and after just having 
> installed/unpacked something meaning locate doesn't know about it yet either?

which only finds executables that are in the path.

I commonly use locate to find config files (or sample config files) for 
packages that were installed at some point in the past with fairly default 
configs and now I want to go and tweak them. so I start reading 
documentation and then need to find out where $disto moved the files to 
this release (I commonly am working on machines with over a half dozen 
different distro releases, and none of them RedHat)

David Lang
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