Bug#208722: fam dependency should be added

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

 This is a followup for Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/208722>.

On jeu, sep 04, 2003, Mikko Rauhala wrote:
> Apparently gnome-panel needs the fam package to properly support
> on-the-fly menu changes. This not working by default is a major bugger,
> so I suggest adding fam to gnome-panel's dependencies.

 The gnome-vfs package has seen a long depends/recommends ping-pong on
 fam, the current status is that gnome-vfs recommends fam (even that
 might be too strong would package managers truly respect recommends:),
 and the proposal is that packages using gnome-vfs' fam related APIs
 should simply depend or recommend fam.  While it's a bit far-fetched, I
 think it's acceptable for now, but I'd rather see FAM fixed to:
 - work without portmap
 - don't cause as much I/O (fam doesn't support inotify)

 The situation isn't too bad in that portmap can be bound to 127.0.0.1
 only now, and since gamin can replace fam and doesn't require portmap
 nor cause as much I/O (it supports inotify).

 The only part of this bug which remains is the "apps requiring fam
 support in gnome-vfs should depend on fam".  Since all that I can
 imagine for this is nautilus and gnome-panel, I'm cloning the bug
 against these.  I don't like the idea of letting meta-gnome2 depend on
 it though, as I feel this is a kludge, even if it would work.

   Cheers,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
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