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  • Re: replacement for apt-xapian-index?

    From Mike Kupfer@21:1/5 to Mike Kupfer on Wed Apr 16 03:50:01 2025
    Mike Kupfer wrote:

    I see that apt-xapian-index has been removed from Debian

    Sorry, I should clarify: it's been removed from Testing (Trixie). It's
    still in older releases, of course.

    mike

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  • From Mike Kupfer@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 16 03:40:02 2025
    I see that apt-xapian-index has been removed from Debian (and it looks
    like Ubuntu, too). I can't say I entirely understand the reasons for
    the removal. At least one justification that was given for Ubuntu is
    the poor user experience for Synaptic when the index is being rebuilt.
    And while I agree that the experience is poor, I'd rather have that than
    have to use the standard Synaptic search UI, which I find klunky.

    Anyway, is there some other package that provides an alternative to the standard Synaptic search UI? I suppose I could just start using
    "apt-cache search"...

    thanks,
    mike

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to Mike Kupfer on Wed Apr 16 10:00:01 2025
    On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:36:14 -0700
    Mike Kupfer <kupfer@rawbw.com> wrote:

    I see that apt-xapian-index has been removed from Debian (and it looks
    like Ubuntu, too). I can't say I entirely understand the reasons for
    the removal. At least one justification that was given for Ubuntu is
    the poor user experience for Synaptic when the index is being rebuilt.
    And while I agree that the experience is poor, I'd rather have that
    than have to use the standard Synaptic search UI, which I find klunky.


    Agreed. I've never been bothered by the update, and I run sid, which
    probably sees more change than Testing, and certainly more than Stable.
    The rather snappier performance in use more than makes up for the
    occasional delay in indexing.

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    Joe

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