Beagle

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> With the obvious costs associated with running it, and no visible benefit 
> to this user, hell it didn't even have a man page, can you (Rahul=TPTB) 
> present a valid argument that I should reinstall it?  I don't like secret 
> software, I don't trust secret software, and if I have any control over 
> it, I'm not running any secret software.
> 
> So justify it, give us manpages, or don't make it part of a default 
> install.

Beagle in simple terms in a desktop search utility. It can search index 
text, word and pdf documents, all kind of images and videos, mails, chat 
logs etc and when you do a search go through the index and present this 
information pretty quickly compared to real time searches with say find 
and grep which is limited to filenames and textual information. However, 
the catch is that the preindexing part has been a resource hog, 
sometimes buggy along with the implementation choice of using Mono which 
itself isnt very mature. The latest version in the Fedora development 
tree has a considerable improvement in speed and robustness though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Desktop_Search
http://beagle-project.org/

If it doesnt work for you or you dont need such a utility. Remove it. 
Atleast in Fedora Core 5, we didnt enable it by default. I didnt have a 
need for it and removed it completely. It did have a spurious dependency 
on Evolution in FC5 which we have split up into a separate component in 
FC6.

Also, there is a different implementation of a similar program called 
tracker available in Fedora Extras written in C which is very fast but 
has few functionality than Beagle currently.

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker

A package in Fedora Core called mikmod obsoletely a very old version of 
a different program called tracker so you would need to exclude it off 
to install tracker.

# yum install tracker --exclude=mikmod

Rahul