[arch-dev-public] Removing fam?

Florian Pritz bluewind at xinu.at
Tue Aug 23 10:21:13 EDT 2011


On 21.08.2011 17:48, Florian Pritz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's been over 7 years since the last upstream update and gamin provides
> nearly all the functions without requiring a daemon and it uses inotify.
> 
> As for NFS support, gamin monitors local events so it won't affect users
> having the home on NFS [1].
> 
> I think we shouldn't support dead software and replace fam with gamin.
> 
> 
> [1] http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/differences.html
> 

I create https://www.archlinux.org/todo/95/

-- 
Florian Pritz

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