On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 12:08 +0200, Roger Price wrote:
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I installed 42.2 Beta 2 with the Xfce window manager. With that I get, without me asking for it, tracker 1.8.0. This program is launched, without me asking for it, to burn up cpu cycles and thrash disks indexing all my files including videos and photos. It is of no use to me - I do not need such "help".
zypper info --recomends patterns-openSUSE-xfce => it explicitly lists tracker
When I remove tracker, Yast tells me that I have to remove Gnome's Brasero as well - ok, so Brasero goes, but why must a CD burner call for indexing of every CD it sees?
That is likely inaccurate - are you sure you tried to remove TRACKER and not libTRACKER* ??The libraries need to be present if you want to ru brasero (it links theM - they are not doing anything if tracker, the daeon, is not there though... and removing tracker should be possible without removing brasero
Could tracker _not_ be included with Xfce installations? The users of Xfce are looking for something simple and lightweight. For myself I install locate (package mlocate) which does all the indexing I need.
Sure - as noted earlier: the xfce pattern explicitly pulls it in; this can be changed. Cheers, Dominique