On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:20 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > severity 414860 wishlist > thanks > > Pierre THIERRY wrote: > > Package: tracker > > Version: 0.5.4-4 > > Severity: normal > > > > I discovered today, because I found the size of my home dir supsicious, > > that tracker had stored nearly 1Gb of data in a dot-dir in my $HOME, > > which I find rather intrusive! > > How big is your home directory? What kind of data does it contain? > For comparison, my $HOME is about 6Gb (with a lot of text files from > sources), and the tracker database is about 220Mb. Could you post the > output of tracker-stats: > > > > > Couldn't tracker respect the XDG basedir spec and store that kind of > > data in the cache-specific directory by default? In my case, if such > > programs would do it, it would make backuping a lot easier (i.e. I don't > > have to check manually what makes the size, only to always exclude my > > home cache). > > > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ > > Remember, that the files in ~/.Tracker/databases also contain the tags > you added manually (via tracker-tag). So it is not only a cache which > can be thrown away and rebuilt without data loss. > > And besides, if we already discuss to use freedesktop.org specs, then it > would probably also make sense to store the configuration in > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. > > This is not a Debian packaging related issue, so I'm asking the upstream > author, Jamie, for his opinion.
quick question: is the cache dir "XDG_CACHE_HOME" persistent? (EG it wont get deleted like /tmp when you logout?) If its persistent then I will be happy to make use of it for the expendable indexes. (Im currently using $XDG_DATA_DIRS for storing the indexes im my revamped version) jamie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
