On Friday 02 May 2014 03:24:58 Rodney Baker wrote:
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Which begs a question. Does Baloo follow symlinks across file systems? Does it behave more like 'find' or more like 'rsync'? Can you turn the ability to follow symlinks, cross file systems, follow symlinks across file systems, set a max size for files to index?
'man baloo' doesn't help.
I don't know. Read the code, I suppose, a normal end user doesn't need this kind of information. If you find answers, it'd be great if you could add
On Thu, 1 May 2014 19:04:26 Jos Poortvliet wrote: them
to http://userbase.kde.org/Nepomuk in case others want to know, too.
With respect, that is an arrogant and ridiculous answer from a developer to an end user! "Read the code!" Not all of us are programmers. Not all of us can understand the code. If an end user didn't need this information the question would not be asked. This information IS needed if one wants to fine-tune the operation and make sure that wanted stuff IS indexed (or unwanted stuff isn't).
Or is this based on an (incorrect) assumption that "normal end users" don't have symlinks in their home directories?
No, it was based on the assumption that this doesn't matter for a normal end user. It just works. If it doesn't, that is a bug and if the lack of testing means it is still there, we have to fix it. If you want to know what he wants to know, read the code. There's no reason to document this for 'normal' users. THAT is what I meant. And said. Nothing arrogant about it, just being realistic. We can't document EVERYTHING, we have to make choices. That means focusing on the most important thing. And this is relevant for less than 0.1% of our users - most of whom don't even KNOW what a symbolic link is...
Regards, Rodney.
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