Comment 5 for bug 140493

I have read all comments in the both ML threads.

As being one of the submitters for the duplicate bug report would like to stress the following things:
* locate is a very useful tool for advanced users which can rapidly find where a certain configuration file, setting or programm documentation can be found.
* on desktop systems, nearly every user who does not use a terminal server for the whole family or office is his/her own administrator and therefore might need a powerful tool like locate
* the memory and hard disk blocking effects of the updatedb has incommodated me since I started to use linux (some 6 years ago) blocking my work every day for some 5-10 minutes. Remember that with increasing hard disk space there's even more to index...
* I was able to reduce the heavy load of rsnapshot just by using ionice
* Linus Torvals himself started an initiative for green computing meaning using processes that use less power and that don't get in the way of the user

=> summarising: let's come up with a smart and modern tool that retrains the functionality but is less blocking

Thanks everyone for your efforts addressing this.