Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2009-07-18 at 02:53 -0400, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 13:44, Peter Nikolic
wrote: On Friday 17 Jul 2009 12:33:34 Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
How about not to install it by default? If one wishes to enable this "feature" it can be done via YaST -> Software Management.
Now that is more like it  NOT by default after all the really usefull  tool like findutils-locate has to be searched for to install it so why not exactly the same for beagle  whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
Very good point. It just so happens findutils-locate is my favorite search tool and I can not recall it ever being installed by default.
I do.
It was installed by default under SuSE 5.x and 6.x at least, and was dropped perhaps with version 7 or 8, for security concerns mostly.
Which is why many of us knew the tool... because it was installed by default; interestingly, many people complained that their machine started trashing their HD at strange hours every day and became unusable. >:-)
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
I never ran across that problem perhaps because I started with SuSE 6.[x=1 or 2]. What drew me to SuSE was reiserfs journalling and after a power glitch, the SuSE box came up instantly while the RedHat box spent ages fscking a 20G ext2 HD. What made the boxes slow and unresponsive was updatedb, but no data corruption problems other than when I had bad IDE controllers on a few motherboards. Long since using locate, having to search for and install findutils-locate. It's been one app in use several times daily for many years and one that my erstwhile colleagues using Linux also found invaluable, we cursed Solaris many times a day when we had to use the inefficient find. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org