Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:12:34 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gamin vs fam Message-ID: <20060130161234.GA11825@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20060130051859.rhe6tai280wwkgk4@mail.encontacto.net> References: <20060129122806.4e58ae2d.dick@nagual.st> <43DCB258.70304@freebsd.org> <20060129220456.01f68e6f.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> <43DD3EB3.9070407@freebsd.org> <20060130051859.rhe6tai280wwkgk4@mail.encontacto.net>
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On 30 Jan eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > Quoting Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>: > >- Gamin still only implements a subset of fam's functionality and > >until that changes should *never* become the default -> POLA. > > > >Quite frankly, I think whoever in portmgr approved this change should > >go to storage, fetch themselves a nice pointy hat from storage and > >then back out this mess. > > While this is being decided. What is the recommended work-around for > those of us who depend on courier/fam and are now seeing "Stale > dependency" on most kde and gnome ports when running pkgdb -F? This > makes using portupgrade a bit of a hassle. I have changed this for most kde/gnome ports to FAM. Hope this will not harm the system too much ;-) But a real solution would be nice. I also totally agree to the statement that a replacement has to be *fully* compliant to the replaced piece of software. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve
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