Bug 212822 - gnome-base/gnome-vfs: please make FAM (gamin) support optional through fam USE flag
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Bug#:
212822
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Product: Gentoo Linux
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Version: unspecified
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Platform: All
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OS/Version: Linux
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Status: RESOLVED
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Severity: normal
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Priority: P2
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Resolution: FIXED
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Assigned To: gnome@gentoo.org
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Reported By: flameeyes@gentoo.org
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Component: Ebuilds
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URL:
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Summary: gnome-base/gnome-vfs: please make FAM (gamin) support optional through fam USE flag
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Keywords:
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Status Whiteboard:
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Opened: 2008-03-09 13:26 0000
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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 ;)
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.
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 ;)
Still missing a fam USE flag...
