[arch-dev-public] Removing fam from [extra]

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Jun 14 11:02:33 EDT 2009


Jan de Groot wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:29 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>   
>> Maybe.  If someone moves gamin to [extra] and all the packages with
>> deps 
>> on fam change to gamin, then I will remove it.  The were more
>> packages 
>> needing rebuilt than I thought and I do not enough time to deal with
>> all 
>> the rebuilds and testing at the moment...
>>     
>
> What about providing fam from the gamin package? The gamin package
> contains a drop-in replacement libfam.so library, so applications linked
> against fam can work with gamin.
>   

Sure, if someone wants to do this and move gamin to [extra], go ahead.   
I don't expect to have to touch fam ever again so I am happy doing nothing.

Allan






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