Emmanuel Blindauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Dimanche 26 Janvier 2003 14:50, Danny Tholen a écrit : > > Silly enough, fam requires portmap, and fam is used by KDE (and nautilus > > too i think) to monitor file-changes. It can also poll the disks if fam is > > not running, but this is worse for performance. > > > > drakxservices should (IMO) auto-enable portmap is fam is enabled. > > (and autodisable fam if there is no portmap) > > Danny > > Why should fam be dependant on portmap ? portmap is mostly used for network > services, not for monitoring disk. > Having an open port on a computer, only for one daemon who watch files changes > is not very good.
well, i don't think drakxservices et the right place to add services dependency. Maybe doing it directly in chkconfig would be better. I don't remember if there's any plan on adding such a feature... fredl should know better, than i.
