From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 08:41:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826201065671; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from cp65.agava.net (cp65.agava.net [89.108.66.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22BD78FC13; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:41:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from [213.148.20.85] (helo=hive.panopticon) by cp65.agava.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Je4nD-0003mU-A5; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:46:03 +0300 Received: from hades.panopticon (hades.panopticon [192.168.0.32]) by hive.panopticon (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2A291A6; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:40:19 +0300 (MSK) Received: by hades.panopticon (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E40A517046; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:41:55 +0300 (MSK) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:41:55 +0300 From: Dmitry Marakasov To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20080325084155.GB3807@hades.panopticon> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Marcus Clarke , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org References: <20080325024031.GA3807@hades.panopticon> <47E8711A.7050403@marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47E8711A.7050403@marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cp65.agava.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - amdmi3.ru X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: gnome dependency on devel/gio-fam-backend and gamin X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:41:41 -0000 * Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus@marcuscom.com) wrote: > Glib 2.16 (with GIO) was designed to support pluggable file monitor > backends. Without one such backend, any libgio consumer would be > severely handicapped. The only reason gio-fam-backend is broken out as > a separate port is that we have one FAM provider that requires glib. If > this was not the case, we'd just have glib20 depend on FAM. > > Recompiling alone is not sufficient. Ports will happily build without > this backend, but may not run correctly if they require libgio. The > cost of the FAM dependency is minimal (most GNOME apps already had this > as part of gnome-vfs), and it just makes things easier for developers > not to have to worry about adding the gio-fam-backend dependency. Still seems like a strange hack to me. Isn't gamin a daemon? I think having an extra daemon in a system should be optional, especially if it's not needed for most apps (I mean gtk apps, not gnome). -- Dmitry A. Marakasov | jabber: amdmi3@jabber.ru amdmi3@amdmi3.ru | http://www.amdmi3.ru