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Subject: Re: Fam vs Gamin
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:48 -0600, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
>>> Every time I upgrade a product I run into this with portupgrade,
>>>
>>> Stale dependency: abiword-gnome-2.4.2 --> gamin-0.1.5_2 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
>>>
>>> ...I didn't install Fam, some port did, should I install gamin instead? 
>>> Does it matter?
>>   I see they both offer the same thing, but gamin uses kqueue backend.  
>>   Any advantage?
> 
> Gamin is generally considered better than FAM on FreeBSD for two main
> reason.  Kqueue makes it more efficient, and it is easier and more
> secure to deploy (it does not require rpcbind/portmap).

I want to add to this that Gamin also works a *lot* faster for me than 
fam, it seems to take note of changes almost immediately in constrast to 
the 3-5 second delay fam had.