what is gio-fam?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:09:06 -0500, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:50:09 -0500, Alexey Shuvaev  
> <shuvaev at physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> IMHO gio-fam-backend should not be implicit dependency. Otherwise why
>> not to install all existing non-conflicting libraries just to ease
>> maintainer's life :->
>> FWIW x11-toolkits/gtkdatabox2 (PR 116120) do not need gio-fam-backend.
>
> Well, all ports should depend on gio-fam-backend. The gio is included  
> and part of glib20. marcus had to split gio out of glib20 package to  
> avoid circle dependency of glib20 -> gamin (FAM replacement) -> glib20.  
> If marcus doesn't split and you guys will have that gio library anyway.

Uh, I should have check in glib20 and gio-fam-backend before I made that  
comment. I thought that gio (libgio-2.0.so) is in gio-fam-backend, but not  
it's in glib20. The gio-fam-backend only installs libgiofam.so and FAM  
support is option in glib configure. I don't think it will be easy to make  
optional (maybe I am wrong) with that split. Remove gio-fam-backend  
dependency is going to hurt some users if they want some missing  
fuction(s) of it.

> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> Just my 0.02$,
>> Alexey.


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