Bug 821952

Summary: Make tracker plugin optional
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel Drake <dsd>
Component: grilo-pluginsAssignee: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: bnocera, kalevlember, pbrobinson, stephent98
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Description Daniel Drake 2012-05-15 20:48:41 UTC
F17's totem depends on grilo-plugins which depends on tracker.

This is causing tracker to be added to OLPC's builds, and autostarting with the desktop.

As cool as tracker is, I don't think its suitable for our resource-constrained embedded platform and would like to exclude it, as before.

Could the tracker plugin in grilo-plugins be moved to a subpackage, brought in by the GNOME desktop group in comps.xml?

This way it would be easy to avoid on OLPC builds and regular users would not be affected.

Comment 1 Kalev Lember 2013-05-29 11:28:02 UTC
A solution could be to split up tracker so that the libraries are in one subpackage and the miners are in another (grilo-plugins links with libtracker-sparql).

That way tracker using apps could keep linking with the libraries, but would no longer have a hard dep on the full tracker installation, which could go into the GNOME comps group instead.

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2013-05-29 11:38:41 UTC
(In reply to Kalev Lember from comment #1)
> A solution could be to split up tracker so that the libraries are in one
> subpackage and the miners are in another (grilo-plugins links with
> libtracker-sparql).
> 
> That way tracker using apps could keep linking with the libraries, but would
> no longer have a hard dep on the full tracker installation, which could go
> into the GNOME comps group instead.

That would be very useful for a number of other similar issues, great idea!

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2013-05-29 12:23:42 UTC
The tracker plugin is going to be a hard dependency of both Totem and gnome-music. So splitting off the daemon, or the plugin isn't going to help anything.

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Comment 6 Steve Tyler 2013-08-09 07:40:43 UTC
See also:
Bug 747689 - provide a method to disable tracker