Fam vs Gamin

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:48 -0600, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
>> Every time I upgrade a product I run into this with portupgrade,
>>
>> Stale dependency: abiword-gnome-2.4.2 --> gamin-0.1.5_2 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
>>
>> ...I didn't install Fam, some port did, should I install gamin instead? 
>> Does it matter?
> 
>   I see they both offer the same thing, but gamin uses kqueue backend.  
>   Any advantage?

Gamin is generally considered better than FAM on FreeBSD for two main
reason.  Kqueue makes it more efficient, and it is easier and more
secure to deploy (it does not require rpcbind/portmap).

To properly upgrade, use:

portupgrade -o devel/gamin -f fam

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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