[09:52] <feamniege> Hi All, as gnome will become the default DE on the new Ubuntu I had a look, and tried it out, over all I'm quite happy with it, but I found few things which just eat my hardware, I know that gnome is not designed to run on old hardware, but still...
[09:52] <feamniege> I'm wondering if it will be possible to remove some of the pointless unused services like tracker or evolution
[09:53] <feamniege> I tried to purge the related packages, but the dependencies are tight and the whole DE was marked for removal when I tried to remove this unused components
[09:54] <jbicha> feamniege: evolution-data-server is a fundamental part of GNOME and can't be removed without crippling the system
[09:54] <jbicha> tracker is not installed by default currently in Ubuntu 17.10 but some non-default apps require it
[09:55] <jbicha> neither tracker nor e-d-s is pointless ;)
[09:55] <feamniege> I ended up `chmod -x` all related binary and now it's pretty speedy and yet I did not discovery any broken functionality
[09:55] <jbicha> tracker itself shouldn't cause problems…
[09:57] <feamniege> it's eating all the sweet IO I have so I read up what it's used for and I see no reason to have it running, neither the evolution-data-server I seen no functionality which is basic for an OS nor a DE, that should be an independent application
[09:58] <feamniege> but yes that is what I found that it's fundamental part :(
[09:58] <feamniege> I just don't understand why
[09:58] <jbicha> you probably shouldn't be removing stuff you don't understand ;)
[09:59] <feamniege> I understand what it does, I don't understand why that is part of the DE, it does not do anything useful to me don't use any of the function it provide
[09:59] <jbicha> it provides calendar integration for one
[10:00] <feamniege> integration with ?
[10:02] <jbicha> gnome-shell has a calendar that uses e-d-s as a library and a service instead of gnome-shell having to write all of that code itself
[10:02] <feamniege> it's OK I don't want to go too far with this, I can accept no as an answer I just wanted to give voice to my frustration as I see no value in it, and there for I don't think it should be a mandatory component, for me it's not mandatory, and in fact I have not seen a gnome user yet who actualy used it
[10:04] <jbicha> tracker shouldn't cause problems, but if you can come up with a testcase where it does, please file a bug
[10:05] <feamniege> I'm happy to have the calendar removed from the top bar, I can find an alternative calendar application which I can use, I understand what you say but what I'm trying to get across that this is an application not an OS, and there for it should be optional
[10:05] <jbicha> every GNOME distro besides Ubuntu includes tracker by default so it generally works for most people
[10:06] <jbicha> Ubuntu with GNOME is clearly an OS, not an application ;)
[10:06] <jbicha> what version of Ubuntu are you using?
[10:10] <feamniege> I have an 16.04 LTS at home an 17.04 here now, both suffer under the both tracker and e-d-s, I tired to setup the configuration of tracker not to index is the free space is below 99% and setup the folders to be limited to nothing, but it keeps comming up to the top of the list both in iotop and top