The fam USE flag should use virtual/fam, or be relabeled. If gamin is really required, then have a famgamin SUE flag or something. USE=fam to me means virtual/fam.
Yes gamin is required (for FAMNoExists() function). I'm working with upstream to see about adding a patch that falls back to fam if gamin is unavailable.
Forgot to re-assign to herd.
1.4.1-r1 is in cvs and fixes this issue (as well as a sleu of others).