On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 03:28:50PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > I'd feel more comfortable with turning locate off by default if there > was a desktop oriented search facility available to transition people > into using. Like gnome-search-tool? Or something with its own, "smart" index? (Personally I prefer waiting for (find) to complete to receiving yesterday's results...) > warning: locate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is > more than 8 days old > > It might be useful to update that message to ask the user to check the > conf file and make sure updating is turned on. Should I file this > suggestion? Not necessary, an updated slocate is already building :) Thanks for the suggestion. (But this is an exception, please file stuff like this in bugzilla. I just happened to be finished with my previous work.) > > If slocate had to be manually selected for installation, it makes sense > > to enable it by default... but installing the package is a more complicated > > action than enabling updatedb if it is already installed. > Debatable.... is there a sane ui way to include this as a checkbox to > enable as part of firstboot? I don't think so, but maybe somebody other can find a way. Mirek