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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/locate?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:34:51
Message-Id: 200709171124.07969.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] virtual/locate? by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Monday 17 September 2007, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > we have now three implementations of locate in the tree that block
3 > each other: sys-apps/{m,r,s}locate
4
5 findutils could provide locate as well, we just disable it
6
7 > This looks like the classical case for a virtual/locate. Any opinions?
8
9 i'd really prefer we avoid it
10
11 > I came across the issue when committing the new package app-emacs/fff
12 > (which is the Emacs equivalent of app-vim/locateopen) to the Emacs
13 > overlay; it will be moved to the tree soon.
14
15 how is it required ? it just runs `locate` at runtime ?
16 -mike

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[gentoo-dev] Re: virtual/locate? Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/locate? Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>