Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Not a good idea.  slocates purpose is not just portage.  Its used on a
running system to allow users to easily and quickly find any file. 
Hence its run daily as users tend to create/delete files each day.

Your circumstance is not the most common one - not using linux all the
time.  servers and user systems benefit from these facilities, both for
the admin and users in general.  I also use a laptop and know what you
mean, and would be lost without an up-to-date locate with over 6Gbytes
of data files in my home directory - it does slow things down if you
dont "nice" it though.

BillK

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:06, Steven Elling wrote:
> On Sunday 02 November 2003 20:01, Brad House wrote:
> > Commenting below:

> I think the Gentoo team should consider giving the user a way of configuring 
> packages to not install certain cron jobs upon install.  For instance, I 
...
> Better yet.  Why not do some magic in portage to run makewhatis and updatedb 
> automagically after a world or system update -- maybe as a FEATURES setting 
> -- and remove the cron jobs altogether.  After all, 90% - 99% of the time 
> files and man pages are only added to Gentoo systems when emerging packages 
> (Hmm. deja-Vu).



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