Bad package selection practices in Fedora packages

Heiko Adams fedora-updates at heiko-adams.de
Wed Jan 4 22:12:16 UTC 2012


Am 04.01.2012 22:02, schrieb Adam Williamson:
> 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.

One good way to disable tracker for non Gnome desktops could be to
change the

> OnlyShowIn=GNOME;KDE;XFCE;

line of the tracker-desktop-files to

> OnlyShowIn=GNOME;

or did I missunderstood the OnlyShowIn directive?

Regards,

Heiko


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