[$] What goes into default Debian?

The venerable locatefile-finding utility has long been available for Linux systems, though itsorigins are in the BSD world. It is a generally useful tool, but does havea cost beyond just the disk space it occupies in the filesystem; there is aperiodic daemon program (updatedb)that runs to keep the file-name database up to date. As a recentdebian-devel discussion shows, though, people have differing ideas ofjust how important the tool is-and whether it should be part of the default installation of Debian.