beagle support missing

[Johannes Rohr]

Binary package hint: nautilus

In Intrepid, nautilus 2.24.1 is built without beagle support. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I prefer beagle over tracker, because it is much more advanced and universal. therefore I would kindly request you to bring beagle support back, which requires no more than adding libbeagle-dev to the build-depends

[A. Walton (awalton)]

It's not a great idea to wholesale add libbeagle dependencies in Nautilus because all users who don't want to use it will not be able to choose anymore; Nautilus will depend on Beagle being there. The correct behavior would to adopt the patch like e.g. GTK+ uses so that Nautilus will dlopen() libbeagle if it's available at runtime, which is a task which should be forwarded upstream.

[Johannes Rohr (jorohr)]

I understand that building against libbeagle-dev introduces a dependency on libbeagle only, not on beagle itself.

Installed-size of libbeagle is only 151k, so I think this is entirely tolerable.

nautilus built against both tracker and beagle works just as well when beagle is absent. Actually, up to 2.22, Ubuntu shipped nautilus with beagle support enabled.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

2.29.92 in lucid loads beagle or tracker at runtime now, closing this bug