tracker in F16

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Sep 12 21:01:16 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:45 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

oop, good catch. I did suspect it's going to become more a part of the
GNOME Experience from now on, though I think I missed the bit where
tracker beat zeitgeist =)
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