[Aptitude-devel] Downgrading apt-xapian-index from Recommends to Suggests

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Thu Sep 13 11:17:56 BST 2012


Hi,

Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> This bug [1] is from a user who installed on a system with very little
> amount of memory.  The issue is apt-xapian-index (“axi”) updates it's
> index and makes the system very unresponsive.

Yeah, that's an annoyance. Ran into that on a not so slow system once,
too. Since then I avoid axi where possible.

> I would like to downgrade axi from Recommends to Suggests

Seconded!

> and will do so for Wheezy unless there are serious objections.

Since aptitude works fine without, I don't expect this to be a problem
and hence should be ok for Wheezy IMHO.

		Regards, Axel
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