Disable miner autostart by default (!260) · Merge requests · GNOME / tracker-miners

Sam Thursfield requested to merge sam/tracker-miners-2.3-no-autostart into tracker-miners-2.3 Sep 01, 2020

GNOME is switching to Tracker 3 by default, see Initiatives#17 (closed) for background. In the GNOME 3.38 release, there is one core app (Photos) which is not ready to switch.

We need to avoid Tracker 2.x and Tracker 3.x miners running in parallel. To solve this, we disable Tracker 2.x miners from starting automatically, and modify Photos to start the miners on demand.

Corresponding Photos branch is: gnome-photos!146 (merged)

Use of Tracker 2.x is deprecated, but the old behaviour can be restored by passing -Dautostart=true at configure time.

Disable miner autostart by default

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