yelp -> libbeagle

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 09:35 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> man, 11 06 2007 kl. 10:13 -0400, skrev Matthias Clasen:
> > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 21:29 +0930, Mark Bradbury wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I was wondering why yelp is dependent on libbeagle  I use tracker and
> > > would like to get rid of libbeagle but don't wont to get rid of yelp
> > 
> > Someone needs to do the same work that we have done for nautilus and 
> > gtk+, and make yelp dlopen libbeagle, instead of linking against it.
> 
> Would the answer not be that someone needs to write a patch for yelp to
> support Xesam so the whole which indexing backend you use to gain the
> desired functionality thing goes away?

Can't link against vapourware...but you are right, if and when some
common indexing infrastructure appears, all parts of the desktop that
currently do an

if (beagle runs) ...
else if (tracker runs) ...
else /* lame fallback */

thing should be fixed to use it.