Re: fam vs. gamin



On 10/2/06, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such
> that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @
> http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies.
> What am I missing?

I'm not sure where you got this idea. I can definately tell you that fam
is much worse maintained than gamin. Its a code drop from SGI from many
years ago that has recieved little maintenance since then.

It's a recommended dependency of nautilus in Debian Etch. Removing
gamin fixed this bug for me:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373814

Now, gamin isn't perfectly maintained either, but with the last bunch of
fixes (in cvs, don't think there has been a release with them yet) it
seems to work fine.

Good to know...



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