bruns added a comment.
Because it can never be consistent. What happens when I create two symlinks to the same folder, and put one link into includeFolders, the other one in excludeFolders? What really should happen, the indexer should **never** follow symlinks, but only add files by their canonical path. This avoids a bunch of problems, symlink loops, nondeterministic pathes for files when these are added to the index, ... REPOSITORY R293 Baloo REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D16878 To: poboiko, #frameworks, #baloo Cc: bruns, kde-frameworks-devel, ashaposhnikov, michaelh, astippich, spoorun, ngraham, abrahams