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apt-xapian-index package

  1. Bug #363695
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 363695

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Kristopher Ives (krisives) wrote : Re: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU

Considering the Add/Remove programs doesn't have much of a "live search" feel to it (when I search for packages it doesn't update for a few seconds and takes a lot of CPU) I don't see what this index is accomplishing.

As someone already mentioned, why can't this just be a done at package install/removal time? The prelink package does this. People expect the system to be under heavy usage while doing package management, but a daemon either needs to be unobtrusive and quick.

Also from a scalability point of view I imagine that this daemon redundantly touches a lot of packages that haven't changed, since it's execution time seems to (understandably) grow with the amount of packages I have installed. A post-install solution would cut down on the overall time wasted creating this index.