Joined: July 2004
||Posted: Dec. 24 2008,22:33
I have never tested it, but it seems to me that they should be able to be installed at the same time. If you want to use findutils.uci, remember that the update commad is NOT "updatedb". It's "/opt/findutils/bin/updatedb" Those are two separate files, each with its own support files.
|does this means that gnu-utils and findutils cannot co-exist ?|
It's to provide more choice. Personally I don't use gnu-utils because it loads into ram. Instead I use UCI packages that are mounted....coreutils.uci, findutils.uci, procps.uci, etc. The uci packages are also the complete utility packages as released by their developers, rather than the selected programs that are put in gnu-utils.
| is there any reason locate & updatedb are implemented in both library findutils & gnu-utils ?|
Many people use gnu-utils because it is more convenient, or it supplies enough tools to do what they need, or for some other reason. It's just about choice.