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On 4/14/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> wrote:
> IMHO, Red Hat got this wrong...  Have a look at the cron job that's
> supposed to generate the catalog and you'll see how they screwed it up.
> By default, it's turned OFF (although in earlier releases it was turned
> on).
>
> Edit /etc/updatedb.conf and set DAILY_UPDATE to yes.

Of course there was a lot of yelling from the inconvenience to
notebook users of having it set on by default. So Red Hat is sort of
in a no win situation on this one. Either remember to turn it on if
you want it on your desktop or remember to turn it off if you don't
want it on your notebook.

I wouldn't argue that on might be the better default though.

John