2009/5/8 Daniel Burrows <[email protected]>: > For this and other reasons, I've been seriously considering disabling > Xapian or not making it the default. It just seems to really suck at > searching for packages, and apt-xapian-index is flaky, so aptitude's > installation and search get broken a lot (see, e.g., 527471).
I think that seems like the best thing to me (at least in the short-term). I've now reinstalled the older version of aptitude, as the xapian search stuff is just too painful. At least on my current hardware, the old search seems to be faster, more functional (supports regexps), less buggy, and of course more familiar to users (the xapian search changes search behavior in a bunch of ways). I seem to recall that on older hardware, the old-style search could be slow when e.g. using "~d", but I've not noticed any obvious lags on modern hardware. Another possible issue is that the xapian search seems to increase aptitude's library bloat -- downgrading aptitude from 5.2.x to 4.11.x removed about 13MB worth of dependencies on my machine! I don't know how many of them are xapian-related, but a number of them seemed to be... I guess library bloat is not as unacceptable as it once was, but given that aptitude is a core system tool, it might be more of an issue than it is with random apps. Thanks, -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
