On 23 November 2016 at 09:36, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 09:39 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> >> What about the larger picture? Can tracker be made optional again >> for >> the GNOME desktop? >> >> Thanks, >> Florian > > No, many of our core applications depend on tracker to be able to see > files, and others (e.g. nautilus) use tracker to make search not take > forever. I don't think we'll support running without tracker anytime > soon. If someone wants to work on splitting little-used GStreamer > plugins into subpackages or sandboxing tracker miners (e.g. maybe with > SELinux?) that would be a more practical way forward. In that case, I expect that we are going to be doing cleanups over and over again. Because while this time it is Gstreamer it could have been any one of the myriad other helpers pulled in. The bigger problem is that the two major defenses of ALSR and DEP can be gotten past. That will have effects on any security decisions that have thought "too hard to do realistically so we rely on that". -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
