On Thursday 18 January 2007 14:09, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> With the obvious costs associated with running it, and no visible >> benefit to this user, hell it didn't even have a man page, can you >> (Rahul=TPTB) present a valid argument that I should reinstall it? I >> don't like secret software, I don't trust secret software, and if I >> have any control over it, I'm not running any secret software. >> >> So justify it, give us manpages, or don't make it part of a default >> install. > >Beagle in simple terms in a desktop search utility. It can search index >text, word and pdf documents, all kind of images and videos, mails, chat >logs etc and when you do a search go through the index and present this >information pretty quickly compared to real time searches with say find >and grep which is limited to filenames and textual information. Maybe that's true, and I certainly cannot testify either way because as I said before, I've never been able to get it to show me (root) a single character of output. >However, >the catch is that the preindexing part has been a resource hog, >sometimes buggy along with the implementation choice of using Mono which >itself isnt very mature. The latest version in the Fedora development >tree has a considerable improvement in speed and robustness though. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Desktop_Search >http://beagle-project.org/ > >If it doesnt work for you or you dont need such a utility. Remove it. >Atleast in Fedora Core 5, we didnt enable it by default. I didnt have a >need for it and removed it completely. It did have a spurious dependency >on Evolution in FC5 which we have split up into a separate component in >FC6. > >Also, there is a different implementation of a similar program called >tracker available in Fedora Extras written in C which is very fast but >has few functionality than Beagle currently. > >http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker > >A package in Fedora Core called mikmod obsoletely a very old version of >a different program called tracker so you would need to exclude it off >to install tracker. > ># yum install tracker --exclude=mikmod > >Rahul This does not yet explain to me how to actually make it DO something for me. Is the user front end broken for root? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
