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Re: 9.4 Linux: no locate database rebuild?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Wed May 11 17:14:50 2005
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:14:37 -0400
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:18 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
>
>>My perception is consistent with Alex's. A fair number of users find
>>it useful, and habitually try to use it (though, admittedly, some
>>of them should be trying to use ``whichlocker'' instead).
>
>
> Uh, how do they use it? (I assume most of these users are not using it
> to search for local data they've stored themselves on the machine.)
I also use it from time to time, and find it useful. I do have files
stored locally (on both a Windows parition readable from Linux, and some
Linux partitions) that I find useful sometimes. Other times, I want to
find the location of a particular file in the release. For example, I
was working with three other students on a final project, and he was
using a Windows version of LaTeX that did not have fancyhdr.sty. I ran
"locate fancyhdr.sty" to quickly find it and give it to him. I probably
could have found it without locate, but it was easier and faster.
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
