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Re: global full-text search for NetBSD
> If you agree that the core system ought to be useful, coherent,
> seamlessly expandable, and scalable,
...none of which are objective measurements, and most of which are
fairly pure opinion...
> then in this day of 500-gigabyte - 1-terabyte HDDs,
Then, fine - for ports which have them.
Many - most? - ports don't, as far as I can tell.
> global full-text search is an essential part of an operating system
> core,
I disagree.
Especially for multi-user machines, on which it is hard for something
like this to avoid leaking information across permission boundaries
it's not supposed to cross.
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