From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30456 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2003 23:54:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 3032 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 23:54:24 -0000 From: William Kenworthy Reply-To: billk@iinet.net.au To: Steven Elling Cc: gentoo-dev List In-Reply-To: <200311041706.38185.ellings@kcnet.com> References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <3FA5B6EA.8050901@mcve.com> <200311041706.38185.ellings@kcnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1067990060.31940.10.camel@rattus.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 07:54:20 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: 6eb61d78-af36-407c-a3d3-6b67621a7a8d X-Archives-Hash: f6c09750c8e2af5a155bf206ca3ec794 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). -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list