fam

[Adam Weinberger]

Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> 
>>Alas, we used to have a section about this in our (FreeBSD GNOME) FAQ.
>>However, since we enabled FAM support by default in gnomevfs2, we
>>dropped it.  I think it would be worth adding back in as its own FAQ,
>>but I'm not sure if that's the best place to disseminate the
>>information.
> 
> 
> Well, I'm strongly influenced by my ex-RE-ness, but I'd think that the
> release notes would be one (but not the only) reasonable place to put
> this.  We already have a note for the 2.10 upgrade, and I think that it
> could use a little more explication vis a vis:
> 
> 1.  The gnome_upgrade.sh script no longer upgrades ports that GNOME
> depends on (but are not parts of GNOME itself).  Users may need to
> manually upgrade certain ports (for example, using portupgrade(1))
> before running the upgrade script to ensure that they are compatible
> with GNOME 2.10.  Specific examples are devel/libtool15 (1.5.10_1 or
> later required) and print/freetype2 (2.1.9 or later required).

That is incorrect.

> 2.  GNOME includes support for the File Alteration Monitor (devel/fam)
> by default, in order to improve the GNOME desktop's ability to respond
> to files being added, deleted, or modified by other programs.  To take
> advantage of this functionality, FAM must be enabled in inetd.conf(5).
> More information can be found in ports/devel/fam/pkg-message.

I have no problem with that message, but it's in no way new news. 
Nautilus has had fam support since at least 2.0.

# Adam


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