On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 09:39 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
What about the larger picture? Can tracker be made optional again
for
the GNOME desktop?
Thanks,
Florian
No, many of our core applications depend on tracker to be able to see
files, and others (e.g. nautilus) use tracker to make search not take
forever. I don't think we'll support running without tracker anytime
soon. If someone wants to work on splitting little-used GStreamer
plugins into subpackages or sandboxing tracker miners (e.g. maybe with
SELinux?) that would be a more practical way forward.
Anyway, let's also mention the bright side of this: Chris says Fedora
is now way harder to exploit than Ubuntu, thanks to our new hardening
flags. So kudos to the folks who pushed that forward recently.
Michael