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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:50:37 +1000
Jared Norris <jrnorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Good morning all,
> 
> Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents:
> 
> On 21 April 2011 03:26, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I already tested it on my testing system, and it made my system unusable
> > because of the indexing.
> > I also can't see the real benefit over the regular search option in
> > Synaptic.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julien Lavergne
> >
> >
> >
> I agree 100% percent with this. Whenever update-apt-xapian runs my computer
> becomes completely useless for some time and has also overheated some of my
> friend's computers. I think something like this is best dealt with by adding
> a note to the release notes? We do get a fair few questions on this in IRC
> each release so a note in the release notes would probably assist most
> users.
> 
> 
As Jared and Julian said, it does tend to swamp low end machines while indexing and it really isn't that useful. It would be best if it didn't appear on the toolbar.

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