Comment 32 for bug 655831

Still affecting Raring.

We've yet to receive an explanation of the rationale for this package being installed by default (or even for its very existence). It's been causing major usability problems for almost 3 years now. It's unfathomable that it's installed on Ubuntu server VM images!

This is exactly the kind of problem that puts people off using Ubuntu and drives them, bewildered, back to Windows, knowing nothing except that "Linux is slow as molasses compared to Windows; randomly it will get so slow I can't even watch a video on YouTube!"

Here are the packages that depend on or recommend apt-xapian-index:

$ apt-cache rdepends apt-xapian-index
apt-xapian-index
Reverse Depends:
  software-center
  muon-installer
  muon-discover
  muon
  synaptic
  packagesearch
  packagekit-backend-aptcc
  muon-installer
  muon-discover
  muon
  goplay
  fuss-launcher
  ept-cache
  software-center
  python-apt
  aptitude

What does it take to get something done about this? Should I upload patches to these packages that removes it from their dependencies?