tracker in F16

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Sep 12 20:45:15 UTC 2011


Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> So, in F16, totem has grown a dependency on tracker, via grilo-plugins.
> This means tracker is now present and active in default F16 installs,
> where it wasn't before. This is leading to the problems that have been
> endemic to desktop search mechanisms ever since the first one crawled
> out of the fiery pits of hell - excessive resource consumption, viz:
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102688.html
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102770.html
> 
> peter robinson reckons it would be easy to split out grilo-plugins'
> dependency on tracker and hence get tracker out of the default package
> set again, if that's desired:

Note that gnome-documents, now a default package, also requires tracker.

Bill


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