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[Adam Porter <655831@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Still affecting Raring.

We've yet to receive an explanation of the rationale for this package
being installed by default (or even for its very existence).  It's been
causing major usability problems for almost 3 years now.  It's
unfathomable that it's installed on Ubuntu server VM images!

This is exactly the kind of problem that puts people off using Ubuntu
and drives them, bewildered, back to Windows, knowing nothing except
that "Linux is slow as molasses compared to Windows; randomly it will
get so slow I can't even watch a video on YouTube!"

Here are the packages that depend on or recommend apt-xapian-index:

$ apt-cache rdepends apt-xapian-index
apt-xapian-index
Reverse Depends:
  software-center
  muon-installer
  muon-discover
  muon
  synaptic
  packagesearch
  packagekit-backend-aptcc
  muon-installer
  muon-discover
  muon
  goplay
  fuss-launcher
  ept-cache
  software-center
  python-apt
  aptitude

What does it take to get something done about this?  Should I upload
patches to these packages that removes it from their dependencies?

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Title:
  update-apt-xapian-index bogs down system

Status in Enablement project for the Toshiba AC100 NetBook:
  New
Status in Apt Xapian Index:
  New
Status in “apt-xapian-index” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index

  This is related to bug 363695 but is not a dupe - that has been
  "fixed".

  every time the update-apt-xapian-index occurs, the system crawls.
  Possibly related to the I/O responsiveness bug of bug 131094.

  The process is extremely intrusive, taking simple things such as flash
  video and throwing the performance down the toilet.

  While this apport bug was collected via a Lucid machine this also
  affects maverick.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: apt-xapian-index 0.25ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct  6 12:32:35 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index

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