Why not GNU's Findutils?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 14/04/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> > I have seen that Fedora Core uses Red Hat's implementation of 'locate'
> > and 'updatedb', while sticking to GNU's implementation of 'find'. Why
> > is it so? Is there any reason for not using GNU's implementation of
> > 'locate' and 'updatedb' as well, since they alongwith 'find' are part
> > of GNU Findutils (http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils)?
>
> I guess you are talking about using mlocate by default instead of
> slocate from Fedora Core 5.
>
> See http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/
>
> Also
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg00758.html

There's also some discussion of merging mlocate functionality into gnu
findutils here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/2006-04/msg00026.html