On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:12 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Kevin Dupuy wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 22:29 +0000, not disclosed wrote:
For the love of all that is good and holy about our mailing list... WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE THIS INCESSANT BITCHING to the Beagle mailing list??? I'm tired of a) this constant repetition of an old thread when not all of us have a problem, yet it is taking up half the mailing list messages on a daily basis lately and b) all it does is just encourage Aaron to whine on and on and we get filled with delayed delivery messages from his woe-be-gone messaging system.
Tired of this nonsense already. Move on or take action where it is appropriate already people! It is not a beagle issue - it is a SUSE packaging issue, we all know what beagle does and how it performs - for a huge number of people it is a huge pain in the arse. Dropping it from the distro would be popular, making it optional would be much more popular.
My opinion it is a crappy solution to a non existent problem, if people want it let them opt in rahter than forcing everyone else to opt out.
If there was a survey for things people removed within 1 week of installing SUSE then beagle would probably be number 1 or number 2 and that makes it a prime candidate for dropping from the default install.
If you're having these problems it is a bug and it IS A BEAGLE ISSUE! What is it you are thinking when you say it is a SUSE issue... Desktop Search is the future, any desktop user or tech journalist will tell you
Just like the Ford Pinto's high-mileage feature, complete with exploding gas tank.
Sorry, deal-killers are not features, no matter how much happy-gigggle shit comes with them.
that. A non-existent problem? TO you maybe. If you keep your filesystem absolutely spotless, then you may not need it, but you're also about 1% of all computer users.
And until Beagle is reasonably bug-free, then it should NOT be part of the standard installation. Especially packaged in such a way that the package manage indicates errors if you try to opt-out of Beagle at install time.
Currently, Beagle is a bug-ridden pile of crap, which should NOT be part of the default install.
Version 0.2 implies something VERY different from 0.9... namely, that it ain't ready for prime time.
Seriously...the Linux kernel hit a high reliability status sooner than Beagle ... US Army, Bosnia was using a Linux box in 1996, by which time it had an uptime of over 450 days.
Which means that it had been up, without rebooting, since 1994.
How old is beagle now..and it's STILL falling into infinite loops. I don't care what the reason is, every time it does, it's due to a bug. And it really doesn't matter if it's because Microsoft has a closed file format for MS office documents... if Beagle isn't ready to handle office documents, and falls into an infinite loop because of it... and the devs KNOW this... then for normal users, .doc files should be SKIPPED by default, until beagle can scan those files without going berserk.
New users generally HAVE to store .doc files sent to them by Windows users... which sets up the user for a VERY bad experience -- which will not be blamed on beagle's inept behavior, but on Linux as a whole.
The users that would not know how to opt in would be the prime candidates for who would use Beagle, those like yourself who would know how to opt out are more likely not to use it.
Beagle is NOT READY
I say again:
NOT
READY
File
A
Bug.
That's the last time I'm responding to this thread.
-Kevin.
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