fam

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Sábado, 19 de Marzo de 2005 19:05, Bruce A. Mah escribió:
> 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).
>
> 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.
>

This is also true for, at last, KDE.  cd /usr/src && make search key=fam 
| less.  Do the note only for GNOME will be inexact.  This is used by 
most modern desktops.

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  josemi