Still affecting Raring. We've yet to receive an explanation of the rationale for this package being installed by default (or even for its very existence). It's been causing major usability problems for almost 3 years now. It's unfathomable that it's installed on Ubuntu server VM images!
This is exactly the kind of problem that puts people off using Ubuntu and drives them, bewildered, back to Windows, knowing nothing except that "Linux is slow as molasses compared to Windows; randomly it will get so slow I can't even watch a video on YouTube!" Here are the packages that depend on or recommend apt-xapian-index: $ apt-cache rdepends apt-xapian-index apt-xapian-index Reverse Depends: software-center muon-installer muon-discover muon synaptic packagesearch packagekit-backend-aptcc muon-installer muon-discover muon goplay fuss-launcher ept-cache software-center python-apt aptitude What does it take to get something done about this? Should I upload patches to these packages that removes it from their dependencies? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655831 Title: update-apt-xapian-index bogs down system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ac100/+bug/655831/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
