Public bug reported:
Affects: yelp (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
I hope this is the correct way to file such a bug. My reasons for filing
this bugs are:
1. The beagle subsystem which should index documentation is broken. See
bug #37742 and #39454 #39456.
2. Even if 1. is fixed yelp itself does not seem to handle beagle-
searching very well as reported in bug #39451
2. Although beagle is only a runtime dependency there are major
drawbacks in the yelp-case. There is currently no way of reverting to
the builtin search engine if beagle is enabled. Thus the only option to
obtain reasonable search-capabilities is to stop beagle. This is not
satisfactory since beagle works quite well for certain use-cases, and
thus should be runable without messing up yelp-search.
3. Nautilus have a similar approach of having beagle as a runtime dep.
This is less severe since a) Beagle search in nautilus actually works
quite well. b) Nautilus-type searches are file-searches which can be
done without beagle using 'gnome-search-tool'.
On this basis I think that one should be able to run beagle, but that
yelp should not be built with beagle support. Perhaps an option to
enable it through gconf if possible. Otherwise it seems current support
is so "hacky" in nature that those wanting to use it would also be
able/willing to rebuild with beagle support if they want.
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Beagle-support in yelp should be removed.
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39458
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