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Bug#: 212822
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2008-03-09 13:26 0000 
While the fam backend comes handy for FreeBSD and non-inotify-capable systems
(2.4 for instance), forcing it does not look very nice to me. I'd sincerely
rather let it just use inotify and not have gamin installed at all. There is
already a handy --disable-fam option to ./configure ;)

------- Comment #1 From Gilles Dartiguelongue 2008-03-09 20:16:01 0000 ------- 
on a related note, please read bug #207081.

So I imagine the logic would be something with USE="fam" and some kernel_linux
checks or something. I'm not an expert on what provides this mechanism on each
systems so it would be great if someones lists them here.

------- Comment #2 From Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 2008-03-09 20:31:43 0000 ------- 
fam (gamin) allows supporting kqueue on FreeBSD, inotify on modern Linux and
dnotify on older Linux, and falls back to polling if everything fails.

On the other hand, if one knows he doesn't need fam, I don't think it's a good
idea to force fam on him ;)

------- Comment #3 From Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 2008-04-05 14:38:30 0000 ------- 
Still missing a fam USE flag...

------- Comment #4 From Gilles Dartiguelongue 2008-04-05 16:51:46 0000 ------- 
fixed.
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