On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:38:21 -0600, DJG (Dariusz) wrote: > Yet, I get tracker, where I didn't ask for it. It would have been OK if it was disabled by default > but not only it wasn't but it created problems for me (not to mention what is the point of scanning > removable media by default is beyond me). Without any hint of how to disable it. > Funny you would say that. The packaging of "tracker" is flawed. From the documentation that is included in the main package, none explains how to disable it. The separate "tracker-docs" package contains API documentation only. $ rpm -qd tracker /usr/share/doc/tracker-0.11.2/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/tracker-0.11.2/COPYING /usr/share/doc/tracker-0.11.2/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/tracker-0.11.2/NEWS /usr/share/doc/tracker-0.11.2/README /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-control.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-extract.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-import.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-info.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-miner-fs.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-search.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-sparql.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-stats.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-store.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-tag.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/tracker-writeback.1.gz Section "5.1 Usage" in the README file mentions a couple of executables, which are not available. That's what prompted me to do more repoquerying in order to find missing tools. However, some of the executables are not available in Fedora, e.g. /usr/bin/tracker-status-icon. Strangely, the tracker-search-tool package does NOT contain /usr/bin/tracker-search-tool but just the missing /usr/bin/tracker-preferences. Not enough to disable tracker, as it continued to work on something with significant fan activity despite the disabled indexing targets. Could it be that it's necessary to delete all the default directory entries for recursive/non-recursive indexing, too? Ubuntu documentation mentions a single checkbox to disable indexing fully. The same README also says | * Provides option to index removable devices. but nowhere mentioned that this is on by default. > It's a quick and easy way to piss off users :( Absolutely. If it's just new dependencies that pull in tracker, the new system behaviour will certainly have a boomerang effect and annoy many users once they install F-16: ==================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ==================================================================================================== Removing: tracker x86_64 0.11.2-1.fc16 @fedora 4.5 M Removing for dependencies: grilo-plugins x86_64 0.1.17-1.fc16 @updates-testing 439 k shotwell x86_64 0.10.1-1.fc16 @anaconda-0 8.7 M totem x86_64 1:3.1.4-1.fc16 @fedora 8.2 M totem-nautilus x86_64 1:3.1.4-1.fc16 @fedora 228 k tracker-search-tool x86_64 0.11.2-1.fc16 @fedora 316 k -- Fedora release 16 (Verne) - Linux 3.1.0-0.rc4.git0.0.fc16.x86_64 loadavg: 0.08 0.26 0.15 -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
