Gamin and fam conflict...

[Elod Kironsky]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:23:23PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>  
>> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:12:33 -0500, David J Brooks 
>> <daeg at houston.rr.com>  wrote:
>>
>>    
>>> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 17:43, Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>>      
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to install Openoffice 2.0.2 from a binary package. I got,
>>>> that some packages are missing, so I started to install them. I built
>>>> the latest gamin port, but when I try to install it, I get a warning,
>>>> that fam is already installed and gamin installs into the same
>>>> directory. Now can I pkg_delete fam and install gamin safely? I see,
>>>> that fam is needed by a bunch of KDE ports. Can I do that or at least
>>>> install gamin over fam?
>>>>         
>>> Deinstall fam and install gamin (or vice-versa, they are 
>>> functionally the
>>> same.) Then run portsdb -Fu to update dependencies from fam to 
>>> gamin.  Read
>>> man 1 portsdb for more details.
>>>       
>> The portsdb won't help, which it's for INDEX stuff. You need to add  
>> WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin in make.conf, then do the -o in portupgrade to  
>> replace.
>>
>>     portupgrade -f -o devel/gamin fam-\*
>>     
>
> This may not leave a working system since they're not 100%
> inter-compatible.
>
> Kris
>   
OK, but how do you install openoffice then? Since it needs gamin and fam 
is there by default if you have KDE. At least it seems so.

Elod