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[Vadym Krevs <vkrevs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 August 2010 09:41, C <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:14, Vadym Krevs <vkrevs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just discovered that as a result of the upgrade to 11.3, both of my
> > desktops now have 3 indexing "solutions" installed and actively trying
> > to index files in my home directory all at the same time:
> >
> > a) beagle,
> > b) tracker,
> > c) strigi
> >
> > Needless to say, that having 3 file indexers running simultaneously
> > severely impacts  performance. While it was not difficult to uninstall
> > 2 of the 3, I am somewhat curious - what is the "openSUSE" indexing
> > strategy? Neither tracker nor strigi seem to have the same level of
> > integration with openSUSE as beagle, so why install and enable all
> > three of them during the upgrade without ever offering user any
> > choice?
>
>
> You upgraded not clean installed?  On my 11.3 Beagle was not
> installed, and Nepomuk/Strigi was disabled by default.... so no
> indexers running at all.  Maybe your case was leftovers from your
> previous install.. ie Beagle was installed already, and Strigi is a
> part of KDE4... some setting you had in your recycled KDE config set
> strigi to enabled... and you were previously using Beagle?  Just
> guessing and comparing to my own 11.3 installs (all clean with clean
> $USER profiles).
>
> C.
> --

Yes, I did upgrade instead of a clean install - as I want my settings
to be preserved. I know it's considered unreasonable :-)

Under 11.2 both Beagle and Strigi had been disabled and never gave me
any trouble.

Looks like this very issue  discussed only days before the 11.3
release but nothing happened as a result.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2010-06/msg00092.html
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