Feature added by: matthias propst (l1zard) Feature #310205, revision 1 Title: using slocate instead of locate openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: matthias propst (l1zard) Description: maybe it would be a good idea to use slocate as default in findutils-locate package. it may called findutils-slocate. here are the reasons why i think we should use this: first its faster. i dont know how they do this but it really is faster. second it is more secure than locate because Secure Locate provides a secure way to index and quickly search for files on your system. It uses incremental encoding just like GNU locate to compress its database to make searching faster, but it will also store file permissions and ownership so that users will not see files they do not have access to. updatedb could than be a simple script or even an alias pointing to slocate -u / i just compiled it in my system and it works. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310205