Adam Williamson (awilliam(a)redhat.com) said:
So, in F16, totem has grown a dependency on tracker, via
grilo-plugins.
This means tracker is now present and active in default F16 installs,
where it wasn't before. This is leading to the problems that have been
endemic to desktop search mechanisms ever since the first one crawled
out of the fiery pits of hell - excessive resource consumption, viz:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102688.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-September/102770.html
peter robinson reckons it would be easy to split out grilo-plugins'
dependency on tracker and hence get tracker out of the default package
set again, if that's desired:
Note that gnome-documents, now a default package, also requires tracker.
Bill