[Bug 798437] Re: Please lower the recommend for apt-xapian-index to suggest

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Title:
  Please lower the recommend for apt-xapian-index to suggest

Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: synaptic

  apt-xapian-index is a recommend of synaptic, and it's installed by
  default. But, on some systems, apt-xapian-index uses too many
  ressources and make system very slow (see bug 594820 and bug 769215
  for example).

  Considering that synaptic is a good alternative to software-center,
  especially on system which can't run it smoothly, adding  apt-xapian-
  index make synaptic less interesting. Also, apt-xapian-index only adds
  the quick search feature, which is partly covered by the classical
  search.

  Finally, it's a problem for Lubuntu, which especially target low
  hardwares, and which use synaptic as a packages manager because
  Software-center is too heavy for some of Lubuntu's targets.

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