[Aptitude-devel] Bug#695725: Bug#695725: aptitude without xapian

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 12 December 2012 11:17,  <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "DH" == Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> writes:
>
> DH> I understand the desire to not install apt-xapian-index, but do you
> DH> have any objection to libxapian22?
>
> All I know is once upon a time there was a mysterious cronjob making
> indexes for something I never used (I'll stick to the old fashioned
> search, even though Enrico is a nice guy and his hair is nice). So I
> disabled it, but apparently unnecessary parts are still on my
> computer... So I suppose libxapian22 is fine, as long as it doesn't go
> bump (cron) in the night, etc.

Ok.  You shouldn't get any bumps with just the library installed.