What goes into default Debian?

Posted Feb 17, 2021 22:03 UTC (Wed) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
Parent article: What goes into default Debian?

My thread made LWN! That's a first. :-)

FWIW, the concept of “default locate in Debian” does not really exist, as long as nothing is installed by default. If you do apt install locate, you get the locate package, which is GNU findutils. To get plocate, you need do explicitly do apt install plocate.

The only way plocate gets preference is if you happen to install multiple ones. If both e.g. plocate and findutils locate are installed, the /usr/bin/locate symlink will (by default) point to plocate, not locate.findutils.