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Subject: Re: amazingly annoying
To: julian@freefall.cdrom.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 13:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199504282011.NAA23740@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Apr 28, 95 01:11:14 pm
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> 
> How come I have NEVER in hte year or so I've been on it,
> NEVER found what I'm looking for on freefall.
> I ALWAYS end up having to ftp to wcarchive as anon
> and getting tons of stuff I don't want 
> just so I can look at the single file I want..
> 
> don't we keep the packages sources here SOMEWHERE?
> and couldn't there be some sort of F*cking index on this system?
> (or even a /packages or /ports-unpacked  symlink)..
> ports is pretty much useless most of the time because they never ftp
> the stuff over correctly especially if you're on thud 
> or freefall.
> 
> can't we keep these things unpacked and populated somewhere?
> 
> julian 
> (just wasted another 30 minutes doing 'find' on freefall AGAIN
> geeze you'd think I'd have learned by now that there is nothing useful here)

You should use locate instead of find, it is 10000 times faster and
should be rebuilding the database once a week so it is pretty up to
date.

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Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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