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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] slocate masked
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:40:23
Message-Id: 201011171340.33235.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] slocate masked by "Petri Rosenström"
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, Petri
2 Rosenström did opine thusly:
3
4 > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Jacques Montier
5 >
6 > <jacques.montier@×××××××××××.fr> wrote:
7 > > Hi all,
8 > >
9 > > slocate is now masked and will be removed.
10 > > As i often used locate to easily find packages, what else could i run ?
11 > > Thank you for your answers,
12 > >
13 > > cheers,
14 > >
15 > >
16 > > --
17 > > Jacques
18 > > Site web <https://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/>
19 >
20 > I got the following message when updating.
21 >
22 > No longer developed and replaced by sys-apps/mlocate
23 >
24 > So I would emerge mlocate
25 >
26 > Best regards
27 > Petri
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30 You will also need to re-run updatedb (this will take a while) and delete
31 /var/lib/slocate/ - it is now useless as mlocate uses /var/lib/mlocate/
32
33 --
34 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] slocate masked Jacques Montier <jacques.montier@×××××××××××.fr>