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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] Could tracker _not_ be included with Xfce installations?
From:       Bjørn Lie <zaitor () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2016-09-28 19:05:46
Message-ID: 1475089546.2392.1.camel () opensuse ! org
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on., 28.09.2016 kl. 19.54 +0200, skrev Jan Engelhardt:
So, why can't the developers make it start on-demand then, if it is
> _that_ essential? Desktop environments seem to be quite eager
> starting all kinds of background processes on other occassions…
> 

Because starting indexing on demand would make everything way
slower/cpu intensive vs having the index updated incrementally as files
come and go.

And  even worse: when starting an app that relies on the index - the
index won't be there.

//Bjørn
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