Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:41:47 +0100 From: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fam Message-ID: <200503190941.47543.freebsd@redesjm.local> In-Reply-To: <1111220750.41721.78.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20050319030449.GG4271@freebsdmall.com> <200503190922.43241.freebsd@redesjm.local> <1111220750.41721.78.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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El S=E1bado, 19 de Marzo de 2005 09:25, Joe Marcus Clarke escribi=F3: > On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 09:22 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > El S=E1bado, 19 de Marzo de 2005 06:35, Joe Marcus Clarke escribi=F3: > > > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 19:04 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > > > How important is fam to GNOME. Should we add a commented out > > > > entry to inetd.conf? Any comment on PR: conf/74004? > > > > > > I'll say it's critical to a user-friendly GNOME installation. > > > Without FAM, you will need to restart gnome-panel each time you > > > install new software, the GTK+ file chooser doesn't update > > > dynamically nor does Nautilus (or anything related to the file > > > system). I can't imagine actually using a GNOME installation > > > without FAM. > > > > > > I think a commented out entry in /etc/inetd.conf would be good.=20 > > > I think teaching the devel/fam port to create an active entry in > > > inetd.conf to be better. > > > > If this is desired, an /etc/rc.d/famd would be better. famd can be > > work in daemon mode without the aids of inetd. > > > > And, if we import the new famd from sgi (2.7.0) and the netbsd imon > > (kqueue based), we can get a great improvement. I've this running > > at work with freebsd4 and pkgsrc. > > Send in the port. If it works better than the current fam port, I > see no reason why mbr wouldn't want to commit it. > > Joe > It's not so easy. NetBSD ports machinery (buildlink3) isn't close to=20 =46reeBSD one. You can build and use NetBSD pkgsrc in FreeBSD (we use this in=20 =46reeBSD/OpenBSD/Slackware/Solaris), but move a port from pkgsrc to=20 another port system is different. I point this allready to mbr, and will work in a patchset time=20 permitting. > > -- > > josemi > > > > > Joe > > > > > > > - Murray > > > > =2D- josemi
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