Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

[Michal Hlavinka]

On 01/03/2012 05:21 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:15 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:
>> On 01/03/2012 09:16 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>
>>> # cat /proc/meminfo>/tmp/1; killall tracker-store; sleep 1; cat
>>> /proc/meminfo>/tmp/2; cat /tmp/1 /tmp/2 | grep MemFree
>>> MemFree:         1940372 kB
>>> MemFree:         1963860 kB
>>>
>>> As you see, killing it on my machine freed over 23 megs worth of pages.
>>
>>
>>    As far as I know tracker is a feature of Gnome 3 - there may be a way
>> to turn it off tho it may need a gnome registry tweak ...
>
> yeah other day this tracker or other from gnome , note that I use KDE ,
> begins track down my external hdd via NAS , which have 1 Tera , IIRC .
> I notice because can't unmount my smbfs .
>
> rpm -ql tracker
> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-flickr.desktop
> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs.desktop
> /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-store.desktop
>
>
> I agree, at least for non-gnome users , tracker shouldn't be in
> autostart.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771601