On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 17:14, Ronald van Haren<pre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Allan McRae<al...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> I would like to remove fam from [extra]. It is old, uses dnotify rather >> than the better inotify and does not build without lots of patches. It >> seems the patches we do use create Arch specific issues with log file >> filling (FS#14623). Finally, gamin does most of the job fam does but better >> and it is currently in the [community] repo. >> >> Any objections? Also, should I bring gamin to [extra] as a replacement or >> leave it in [community]? I really do not care which.... > > Every normal file manager should use inotify by itself and not depend > on fam/gamin for that. What fam adds is the ability to monitor remote > file systems IIRC, gamin does not add anything (of course it adds the > basic functionality to file managers which don't have inotify > support). > > so -1 from me
I agree with Ronald here, unless something has changed in gamin in these 3+ years during which there were numerous feature requests about replacing fam with gamin. And speaking of changes - this one (from http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/news.html) looks suspicious: 0.1.9: Jul 27 2007 Bug fixes: enable polling when using inotify this fixes support for NFS partitions -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)