Re: [sabayon] Gnome-vfs / gamin monitoring

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:19:11PM -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently we use gamin in dirmonitor.py.  Using Gamin directly scares me
> a bit:
> 
> - Gamin is unmaintained, AFAIK

 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:29:42 -0500
 From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
 Subject: [gamin] release of gamin-0.1.8

If you label as unmaintained all packages whose last release is more than 3
months old, that's gonna be an awful lot !

> - Not everyone uses Gamin for that reason (openSUSE - we use inotify
> from gnome-vfs-monitor).

  Your reasons for not using gamin might be legitimate but please not
the unmaintained one, thanks :-)

> We have a patch at Suse that makes Sabayon's dirmonitor.py simply use
> gnome-vfs-monitor, and it seems to work well.
> 
> Are there any objections to changing Sabayon to use gnome-vfs file
> monitoring instead of gamin?

  I honnestly don't care.

Daniel

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