On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 17:48 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote:

Hi,

It's been over 7 years since the last upstream update and gamin provides nearly all the functions without requiring a daemon and it uses inotify.

As for NFS support, gamin monitors local events so it won't affect users having the home on NFS [1].

I think we shouldn't support dead software and replace fam with gamin.

My thoughts on this subject: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2011-July/020963.html I'd say: drop where possible when native inotify exists, otherwise replace with gamin.

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote:

On 21 August 2011 18:55, Tom Gundersen wrote:

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As discussed on IRC: +1 from me. I'm in favour of removing fam, but please stop discussing decisions on IRC. I cannot join our dev channel every day and it doesn't have a log file accessible through the website neither and I'd like to know the benefits/disadvantages of fam, or everything else, removal.

In this case, Florian summarized the discussion in his email. -t

On 23 August 2011 16:21, Florian Pritz wrote:

I create https://www.archlinux.org/todo/95/ I just moved fam to AUR.

-- Andrea