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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 15:07:11
Message-Id: 201011171707.32930.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] slocate masked by Mick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 16:44 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, Mick did
2 opine thusly:
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4 > On 17 November 2010 14:00, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
5 > > On 17/11/2010, at 11:31am, Eric Chatellier wrote:
6 > >> Le 17/11/2010 12:30, Jacques Montier a écrit :
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 > >> Just read mask message :
14 > >> "No longer developed and replaced by sys-apps/mlocate"
15 > >
16 > > I did this the other day. It fixes the large files problem on 32-bit. :D
17 > >
18 > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/183485
19 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280620
20 > >
21 > > :D
22 >
23 > Just ran updatedb with mlocate and it was blindingly fast! Is that
24 > normal or did it not run and tricked me! ;-)
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26 /usr/share/doc/mlocate-0.23.1/README.bz2
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28 Why do so many people ask questions without reading the docs FIRST?
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30 I'm going to start charging a research fee from now on.
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35 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] slocate masked Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>