Hard dependency on locate causes unwanted background jobs

[Martin Stjernholm]

phatch-cli depends on locate | mlocate, and those packages install cron jobs that creates a lot of background disk activity. Therefore users have a legitimate interest in keeping those packages off their systems. Also, from my (admittedly very cursory) investigation of phatch-cli, it can offer most of its functionality without a locate db.

So the dependency on locate | mlocate should imo be demoted to a Recommends or Suggests.

phatch-cli is 0.2.7.1-1.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

What i have sometimes done in cases like this is to compile a dummy package (equivs or normal with pbuilder) and have that package provide and conflict with the package I did not want.