Feature Request: unify find/locate interface

[Nathan]

Hello,

It seems like it'd be a simple and useful feature to add an option to
"find" which would instruct it to use the updatedb database, instead
of searching the filesystem.

The advantage is that new comers would no longer have to learn the
commandline for both find and locate, and the expressive power of find
is preferable to locate, IMO.

I imagine the hardest part would be to incorporate more meta-info into
the locatedb so as to allow it to handle find's breadth of options.

Also, there may be problems with find actions other than -print (such
as -exec) because the file existence or metainfo may have changed
since the last updatedb run...

Has anyone discussed this kind of unification before?  Is it harder
than I imagine?  Is this the wrong medium for wishlist items?

Thanks,
Nathan