212822 2008-03-09 13:26 0000 gnome-base/gnome-vfs: please make FAM (gamin) support optional through fam USE flag 2008-04-05 16:51:46 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 flameeyes@gentoo.org gnome@gentoo.org flameeyes@gentoo.org 2008-03-09 13:26:17 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 ;) eva@gentoo.org 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. flameeyes@gentoo.org 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 ;) flameeyes@gentoo.org 2008-04-05 14:38:30 0000 Still missing a fam USE flag... eva@gentoo.org 2008-04-05 16:51:46 0000 fixed.