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#9590: Faster Synaptic search with tracker
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Written by maltepalte the 6 Jun 08 at 17:56.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Use Tracker in Synaptic to search for packages.
One thing that boggles my mind is why the Synaptic search is so unbearably slow. At the same time, the desktop searcher Tracker delivers results as quickly as you would expect.
Synaptic has a finite, and rather small amount of records to search through, that changes rather infrequently (again, in search engine context). It seems like the perfect candidate for using Tracker instead.
With Tracker in Synaptic a search for any string would probably take about 0.05 seconds. That is down from approx 5-6 seconds that it currently typically takes.
So again, use Tracker in Synaptic to seriously speed up the package searches!
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Adys wrote on the 6 Jun 08 at 19:09
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No no no no no and no. A lot of people uninstall tracker, if you want that keep it out of the default options.
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Warbo wrote on the 6 Jun 08 at 21:53
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Adys: If it is optional then it would simply revert to the current way of doing things if tracker gets uninstalled.
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maltepalte wrote on the 7 Jun 08 at 00:19
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Yes, like Warbo says it could revert, OR Synaptic could simply have its own built-in search engine. It could utilize a good small-footprint FOSS engine like Xapian -> http://xapian.org
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Vadim P. wrote on the 15 Jun 08 at 14:31
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Synaptic is very fast after the 1st search for me actually. Other ones take a max of 2 seconds :/
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