#124 Fedora 35 KDE spin installed tracker, tracker-miners, libtracker-sparql
Closed: Fixed a year ago by siosm. Opened 2 years ago by skierpage.

The binary /usr/libexec/tracker-miner-fs-3 just crashed on me. But why does my KDE spin have the tracker-miners-3.2.0-2.fc35 package installed? I don't recall seeing it before the system upgrade to F35.

According to dnf repoquery --whatrequires tracker-miners-3.2.0, nothing requires this in my KDE system, so its presence seems like a bug. Looking at dnf logs, the system-upgrade to F35 installed (not upgraded) libtracker-sparql, tracker, and tracker-miners.

tracker and tracker-miners seem unnecessary on a KDE system running Baloo, which uses the KFileMetaData file info extractors. sudo dnf remove tracker would remove a dozen unused dependencies on my system. Removing libtracker-sparql would remove over 1.2 GB including firefox and thunderbird so it's a lot more intertwined.


Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue tagged with: need-info, packaging

2 years ago

I've just tried on F36 KDE:

sudo dnf remove tracker.x86_64
Dependencies resolved.
===============================================================================================================================================================
 Package                              Architecture                Version                                                   Repository                    Size
===============================================================================================================================================================
Removing:
 tracker                              x86_64                      3.3.0-1.fc36                                              @fedora                      1.9 M
Removing dependent packages:
 tracker-miners                       x86_64                      3.3.0-1.fc36                                              @fedora                      4.1 M
Removing unused dependencies:
 exempi                               x86_64                      2.6.0-0.2.20211007gite23c213.fc36                         @fedora                      1.4 M
 libcue                               x86_64                      2.2.1-9.fc36                                              @fedora                       82 k
 libgrss                              x86_64                      0.7.0-14.fc36                                             @fedora                      171 k
 libgsf                               x86_64                      1.14.47-5.fc36                                            @fedora                      941 k
 libgxps                              x86_64                      0.3.2-3.fc36                                              @fedora                      193 k
 libiptcdata                          x86_64                      1.0.5-10.fc36                                             @fedora                      173 k
 libosinfo                            x86_64                      1.10.0-1.fc36                                             @fedora                      1.2 M
 osinfo-db                            noarch                      20220214-1.fc36                                           @fedora                      2.8 M
 osinfo-db-tools                      x86_64                      1.10.0-1.fc36                                             @fedora                      186 k
 totem-pl-parser                      x86_64                      3.26.6-4.fc36                                             @fedora                      314 k

Transaction Summary
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Remove  12 Packages

From my limited experience, it doesn't appear to remove anything that I really need.

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue untagged with: packaging

2 years ago

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue tagged with: packaging

2 years ago

This is still the case in fedora 37

Metadata Update from @justinz:
- Issue tagged with: meeting

a year ago

Added to meeting list so it can be discussed.

@ngompa and @siosm will take care of this. Apparently is GTK3 which is bringing this in. We can, however, directly exclude tracker-miners and/or tracker from the spin

It's a recommends in gtk3: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gtk3/blob/rawhide/f/gtk3.spec#_92

I can remove it from Kinoite.

For the KDE Spin we can exclude it from the media but with dnf it will get re-installed on updates.

For the KDE Spin we can exclude it from the media but with dnf it will get re-installed on updates.

This is not true anymore. That behavior was fixed in F36.

OK, then, we're good.

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue untagged with: meeting
- Issue marked as blocking: #112
- Issue set to the milestone: Fedora Linux 38

a year ago

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

a year ago

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