A quick clarification - All of these additional dependencies - TagLib, FFmpeg, Exiv2, Poppler and more - they are all OPTIONAL. If you don't have the required library, then we just will not extract metadata from the mimetypes that it supports.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote: > Hey everyone > > For 4.10, Nepomuk will no longer depend on Strigi for file indexing. We > have written our own file indexer which are based on popular libraries such > as taglib, exiv, ffmpeg, etc. This allows us to better control the indexing > process. If you would like to know more reasons as to why the change was > done, please read [1]. > > I will be merging this new file indexing code into master by the end of > the week. > > @ Packagers: > > I talked with Will Stephenson (OpenSuse) a couple of weeks back, and he > informed me that it might be problematic for distributions to ship > nepomuk-core if it depends on ffmpeg, taglib, and other packages which are > slightly controversial. Is this going to be a problem? He suggested that > the file indexing plugins be present in a separate repository. It doesn't > affect us much, so I would like to know your opinion? Do you want it to be > in a separate repo? > > [1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/nepomuk/2012-September/003167.html > > -- > Vishesh Handa > > -- Vishesh Handa
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