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. Thanks, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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