Comment 7 for bug 655831

I do not understand the purpose of this piece of software.

It seems that when I found out about it and removed it, the only functionality I lost was being able to "quickly" search using the toolbar in Synaptic?

Surely that's not worth heating up my computer for.
I manage fairly well with Ctrl+F to search (or whatever your hotkey might be.)

Does the new "Software Center" thingy use it? If it does, I don't see why it should; the traditional search in Synaptic is just as fast when you consider that actually redrawing the list view takes just as long as the actual search.

Further, I don't understand why you need to index metadata on top of apt, surely apt-cache or whatever has all this information available somewhere already? This all seems very complicated for absolutely no gain at all.

There is probably some purpose to it that I can't see. But at least it's gone from my computer from now on.