I realize that beagle 0.2.17 hasn't been in the tree for a month yet, but it contains a metric ton of bug fixes. One specific issue is that previous versions of beagle only know how to deal with libexif.so.10. media-libs/libexif-0.6.16 installs libexif.so.12 and is currently the only version in CVS. This means that indexing of images with beagle is currently broken for everyone on a stable profile. Moreover, my observation is also that beagle has much more memory issues when it encounters IndexHelperExceptions, so with a broken libexif beagle isn't running very smoothly.
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on amd64: app-misc/beagle-0.2.17 USE="evo gtk pdf python -chm -doc -galago -ole -thunderbird" seems to work fine for me. Portage 2.1.2.11 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r2 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:20:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage/repos/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/portage/repos/private" SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 beagle berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv icu ipod ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mono mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis xattr xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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