On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:14:22 +0300, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> $ gsettings list-recursively | grep -i org.freedesktop.Tracker
While digging, I've come that far, too. Can't say I'm happy, because
tracker-preferences at least made it quick and convenient to remove the
index directories.
$ gsettings set org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories []
$ gsettings get org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files index-recursive-directories
@as []
^^^
^
^
Ouch! It's using GVariant format strings.
> Does anyone know why tracker-preferences package was removed? I
can't
> find it in
src.fedoraproject.org nor I can find any email about it.
> That package is honestly essential. Tracker sooner or later gets
> stuck in a loop on about every system I work with.
Upstream decision.
From the release notes of 1.99.0 - 2017-07-06:
" * Deleted tracker-preferences. Tracker has been using GSettings for years,
so doesn't specifically require an UI for it, there's of course room
for desktop integrated configuration, gnome-control-center does this
for example.
"
Big *sigh*. What a poor decision. So much about making desktop user
friendly. It's not even possible to uninstall it because of dependency
hell and libs usage:
# rpm -e tracker-miners
error: Failed dependencies:
tracker-miners is needed by (installed) gnome-documents-3.26.0-2.fc27.x86_64
tracker-miners(x86-64) is needed by (installed) tracker-2.0.0-2.fc27.x86_64
# rpm -e tracker-miners gnome-documents tracker
error: Failed dependencies:
libtracker-control-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed)
gnome-documents-libs-3.26.0-2.fc27.x86_64
libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed)
gnome-online-miners-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64
libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed)
grilo-plugins-0.3.5-2.fc27.x86_64
libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed)
gnome-online-miners-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64
libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed)
nautilus-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64
libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed)
gnome-boxes-3.26.0-1.fc27.x86_64
libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0()(64bit) is needed by (installed)
gnome-documents-libs-3.26.0-2.fc27.x86_64