Re: [Tracker] Review trackerd command line options

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 29/11/2006 alle 14.22 +0000, Jamie McCracken ha scritto:
> > Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > > Comments ?
> > yeah I think what you suggest is best
> >
> > (only advanced users would use options so I think its okay to break now)
>
> Changes applied on cvs, please test. The only unimplemented feature is
> the switch to G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY (I didn't have time to check
> if it could work with current implementation).
>
> There are a couple of strange behaviors; let me assume you have a
> ~/Desktop/Downloads/ directory and a /home/shared/ directory (this one
> with shared stuff between users) and you remove the .Tracker directory
> before running the following commands:
>
>       * `trackerd -e /home/user/Desktop/Download/` - IMHO this command
>         should index/monitor the user's home directory excluding from
>         indexing and monitoring the ~/Desktop/Download directory.
>         Unfortunately it seems that the trailing backslash makes
>         trackerd ignore the -e option :-(
>       * `trackerd -i /home/shared/` - this command, instead, will enable
>         the indexing and monitoring of /home/shared directory (even if
>         you add the trailing /), but trackerd will index and monitor
>         _only_ this directory ($HOME is not added by default)


will have a play and sort this out this weekend

Im not sure we need the -i param as the list of directory roots should 
be the default stuff at the end?

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