[Mageia-dev] tracker...

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 14:55:14 CEST 2011


On 7 September 2011 14:26, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since this morning, a shiny piece of software I never opted to run not even
> to install is eating 99% of my cpu.
>
> I don't find any way to disable it (excepted killall...), and I can't even
> uninstall it:
> tracker is needed by libtracker
> libtracker is needed by libfolks
> libfolks is needed by gnome-shell
>
> Whereas I perfectly understand why tracker (the binary) would requires
> libtracker (the library), I really don't see why libtracker would make
> tracker presence mandatory. After all, if the main program is missing, I
> don't even need libtracker to be in working state, I just need its symbols
> to be available to libfolks...

Agreed but where's the BR in bugzilla?


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