Chris Maaskant wrote:
Op zo, 21-05-2006 te 18:54 +0200, schreef Carl-Daniel Hailfinger:
Once upon a time, the findutils-locate package provided very similar services. It was dropped because it used too many resources. Then, quite a while later, beagle came, used ten times the resources and everybody either had to be happy or silent. Beagle will happily index gigabytes of my data *while I'm working on battery*. And there is no way to stop it from doing that except mucking with cron or uninstalling beagle.
findutils-locate was never dropped, i still use it next to beagle.
Sorry, I meant to write "dropped from default selection".
I gues you never realy used beagle because of the way you compare it with locate. It realy isn't the same thing. Can you use locate to find a persons name in a email or in a chat log? I think not.
You're right. I use seamonkey to search my mail and gaim to search my chat log. Works for me and I couldn't yet see a reason why I should run a third app to search my mail and chat log. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/