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[Teunis Peters <1518526@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem is there's no explanation of why this component is even
present and it behaves a lot like a lot of malware.    Otherwise it
seems to be operating a "service" that's a usual path of malware in most
cases.    There are no "use" cases, at least that I could find.  The
name's too generic to really work for documentation searches though, and
its readme just says it's a desktop search engine - but not what that is
or why it's useful.

Going to suggest at least putting a "documentation needed" mark on the
software.    At least explain why it would be present on a development
machine, for instance, or in a professional office environment where its
behaviour can easily be perceived as a security or confidentiality risk.

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Title:
  malware steals resources and is entirely useless

Status in tracker package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  cannot remove this piece of malware.   It has no use and seems to hijack cpu, disk, disk space and in general reduce system to unusable.  Purging the malware "tracker-miner-fs" reduces its impact some, but it's still expensive.
  I mean, who uses desktop search tools anyway?   Definitely not someone with several thousand source files and no interest in using a desktop to interact (that's what console is for).   Definitely not when there's perfectly good app menus that (at least used to be) present.

  Please purge this.  Or at least make it possible to purge.   It's malware.
  All "search tools" are malware because they eat disk space like they're the only app present and nothing else matters.   They should only ever be optional.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: tracker 1.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-18.22-generic 4.2.3
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Fri Nov 20 21:34:10 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-14 (37 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150924)
  SourcePackage: tracker
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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