I'm now using rlocate for about 5 month and i'am quite happy with it. Recently i stumbled over locateopen and realized that it depends on slocate. So i installed the plugin manually and changed line 25 to let s:slocate_app = "rlocate" which seems to work very well (great plugin by the way). However, it would be even better if the ebuild directly supports rlocate - maybe through a useflag.
1.2, thanks