Why is zeitgeist datahub still installed?

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Thanks for the info Wirezfree.

[size=1em]But I did not find anything though to suggest that installing any application that[/size]
[size=1em]is [/size][size=1em]"Zeitgeist Aware" would actually trigger the installation of "Zeitgeist" itself..??[/size]

In Mint Xfce, they use gedit text editor instead of leafpad.  I like gedit better than leafpad myself, so a while back I went to install it on LL.  During install noticed that it was going to pull in zeitgeist, so I stopped it and didn't bother.

Just now, decided to run a simulated install command for gedit on LL -- here is result:

Code:

bill@Gold:~$ sudo apt-get install -s gedit
[sudo] password for bill:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libcmis-0.4-4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gedit-common gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 libdee-1.0-4 libgtksourceview-3.0-1
  libgtksourceview-3.0-common libtelepathy-glib0 libzeitgeist-2.0-0
  python-gi-cairo python-zeitgeist zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub
Suggested packages:
  gedit-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gedit gedit-common gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 libdee-1.0-4 libgtksourceview-3.0-1
  libgtksourceview-3.0-common libtelepathy-glib0 libzeitgeist-2.0-0
  python-gi-cairo python-zeitgeist zeitgeist zeitgeist-core zeitgeist-datahub

As you can see, installing gedit will also end up installing zeitgeist itself.  So, I'd say that different packages may or may not also pull in zeitgeist and that people just need to pay attention to what installer tells them is being pulled in as a dependency.

Apparently, Mint developers designed their default systems with gedit, but stripped out zeitgeist itself.  The only two zeitgeist related packages on fresh Mint 17.1 Xfce are:

Code:

libzeitgeist-2.0-0
python-zeitgeist

So in this example, if someone wanted gedit on LL:  install it, then remove the zeitgeist, zeitgeist-core and zeitgeist-datahub packages.  (I'd imagine one could get rid of the other two packages as well without breaking gedit functionality, but I don't know that for sure because I haven't bothered trying it myself.)