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by dcreater 643 days ago
What dependencies does it install and does it create a bunch of caches, indices that clog up storage and/or memory? (Besides rip grep)
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> What dependencies does it install

For all of the built-in adapters to work, you'll need ffmpeg, pandoc, and poppler-utils. See the Scoop package [1] for a specific example of this.

> does it create a bunch of caches, that clog up storage and/or memory?

YMMV, but in my opinion ripgrep-all is pretty conservative in its caching. The cache files are all isolated to a single directory (whose location respects OS convention) and their contents are limited to plaintext that required processing to extract.

[1]: https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/blob/master/bucket/rg...