Re: beagle disregards .noindex

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Addendum.

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 13:56 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote: 
> The use of extended attributes is central to the entire indexing
> infrastructure, so the check done unconditionally.

"the check is done unconditionally," obviously.

> What you can do is use the BEAGLE_HOME environment variable to point
> beagle at a different place to index.  You could set up a fake home
> directory somewhere in /tmp and point BEAGLE_HOME there.

I forgot to mention it, but you'll need extended attributes on /tmp or
wherever you decide to do this. :)  So follow the instructions on the
wiki for adding user_xattr to whichever mount point you use.

Joe