Bug#208722: fam dependency should be added

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 16 février 2006 à 15:28 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit :
>  The gnome-vfs package has seen a long depends/recommends ping-pong on
>  fam, the current status is that gnome-vfs recommends fam (even that
>  might be too strong would package managers truly respect recommends:),
>  and the proposal is that packages using gnome-vfs' fam related APIs
>  should simply depend or recommend fam.  While it's a bit far-fetched, I
>  think it's acceptable for now, but I'd rather see FAM fixed to:
>  - work without portmap
>  - don't cause as much I/O (fam doesn't support inotify)
> 
>  The situation isn't too bad in that portmap can be bound to 127.0.0.1
>  only now, and since gamin can replace fam and doesn't require portmap
>  nor cause as much I/O (it supports inotify).
> 
>  The only part of this bug which remains is the "apps requiring fam
>  support in gnome-vfs should depend on fam".  Since all that I can
>  imagine for this is nautilus and gnome-panel, I'm cloning the bug
>  against these.  I don't like the idea of letting meta-gnome2 depend on
>  it though, as I feel this is a kludge, even if it would work.

FYI, this will change in gnome-vfs 2.14, which will have builtin inotify
support, making this problem go away. However this may be at the cost of
entirely dropping FAM, so we'll probably have to hack something to be
able to keep both functionalities.
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