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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kio-locate
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-10-27 17:28:58
Message-ID: 200410271928.59290.faure () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 27 October 2004 19:02, Bernd Brandstetter wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 03:03, Michael Pyne wrote:
> > Well *I* think kio-locate kicks mucho ass... but I agree with coolo that
> > it wouldn't really make a good fit for a default KDE install, since it's
> > apparently unlikely that a system is going to end up with locate (or
> > slocate) and a cron job to run updatedb.
> 
> I'd also consider a kio-locate really useful. What's the problem with 
> systems not having locate installed? Either the configure script could 
> check if locate is available and otherwise exclude kio-locate from 
> compilation, or the kioslave should give an error message when it can't 
> find locate. KDE already has lots of kioslaves which require other 
> applications/libraries/hardware to work: smb, ldap, mac, vnc, ...
> I did not look at the given link, but I suppose that kio-locate has a 
> rather small footprint, so it won't dramatically increase the package 
> size.

The problem is that you could have the locate program installed, and still
no useful database to search into, if no cronjob creates it. But of course
kio_locate could warn about that (db not existing or too old), like the command-line
locate does.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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