"We recommend the use of gamin instead of fam. In order to use gamin, you must have an inotify enabled kernel." Not true - gamin supports inotify, dnotify, and file-polling (in that order). gamin is a drop in replacement for all things fam and does a much better job even if you don't have a fancy kernel. Also, the guide doesn't make it obvious enough that you have to "emerge gamin" after unmerging fam, and it should also state that gamin doesn't have an initscript.
*** Bug 121791 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
( Please re-open if you don't agree) Thanks! Changed to: <p> We recommend the use of gamin instead of fam. One way to use gamin is to have an inotify enabled kernel. Gamin supports inotify, dnotify, and file-polling. If you have problems with gamin, you can use fam instead. </p> <note>If you would like to know more about gamin configuration, please see <uri>http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html</uri> </note> <impo> Gamin does not have an initscript, so you do not need to add it to any runlevels. </impo> <pre caption=""> # <i>rc-update del famd</i> # <i>emerge unmerge fam</i> # <i>emerge -av gamin</i> </pre>
