tracker search tool (was: Re: New bugs in updates)

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 19:31 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:39:32 +0100, PR (Peter) wrote:
> 
> > >> 6) Tracker (apart from having crashed) started to appear at the top of "top"
> > >> with heavy CPU usage. I hope that won't go on like that.
> > >
> > > To fight that, I've stopped the mining, then used
> > >
> > >   yum -y install tracker-search-tool
> > >
> > > to install two more tracker related executables. That made it possible to run
> > >
> > >   /usr/bin/tracker-preferences
> > >
> > > where I could turn of the indexing. Kind of stupid to index removable
> > > media by default.
> > 
> > Nothings really changed then, its always been somewhat of a CPU hog,
> > although generally most packaging people had a separate tracker
> > subpackage so you could just remove it completely. It seems
> > grilo-plugins has a tracker interface, it looks like the tracker
> > component could be split out into a subpackage, not sure what impact
> > that would have on the grilo package as a while though.
> 
> I can assure you, it's the first time I've noticed this tracker activity
> and immediately considered it a major annoyance. I don't think I've had
> this with F-15. And with F-16 it has been like that only since 1-2 days.
> 
> $ rpm -qi tracker|grep ^In
> Install Date: Wed 07 Sep 2011 11:38:44 PM CEST
> 
> I'd like to turn it off completely. Or remove it. If that's not possible,
> it's a blocker.

In F15 nothing very critical depended on tracker, and it may well not
even have been installed by default.

In F16, through grilo-plugins, shotwell and totem both depend on it, so
it's harder to get shot of.
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