On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 16:45 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Adam Williamson (awilliam@redhat.com) said:
So, in F16, totem has grown a dependency on tracker, via grilo-plugins. This means tracker is now present and active in default F16 installs, where it wasn't before. This is leading to the problems that have been endemic to desktop search mechanisms ever since the first one crawled out of the fiery pits of hell - excessive resource consumption, viz:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102688.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102770.html
peter robinson reckons it would be easy to split out grilo-plugins' dependency on tracker and hence get tracker out of the default package set again, if that's desired:
Note that gnome-documents, now a default package, also requires tracker.
oop, good catch. I did suspect it's going to become more a part of the GNOME Experience from now on, though I think I missed the bit where tracker beat zeitgeist =)