[arch-dev-public] Removing fam?
Jan de Groot
jan at jgc.homeip.net
Sun Aug 21 12:57:46 EDT 2011
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 17:48 +0200, 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.
My thoughts on this subject:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2011-July/020963.html
I'd say: drop where possible when native inotify exists, otherwise
replace with gamin.
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