Bad package selection practices in Fedora packages

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jan 4 21:02:03 UTC 2012


On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 13:14 +0000, mike cloaked wrote:

> If the Gnome decision is for tracker to be there by default then that
> is a Gnome dev decision, and Gnome users can switch it off if they
> know how to and want to do so - but why was the decision made to set
> it up and running for other desktops? Give KDE and XFCE and LXDE users
> the choice if they want it but surely the default there should be
> "off" and not "on"?

KDE, Xfce and LXDE SIGs could certainly choose to configure the KDE,
Xfce and LXDE spins such that tracker is disabled or not included.
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