On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Allan McRae<allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hi,
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....
Allan
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 Ronald