what is gio-fam?

[Alexey Shuvaev]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:31:18AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, somewhat much clearer now. I had some feeling that gio-fam-backend is
freebsd specific.
How many chances are there to account for existence of gamin upstream?
(So to avoid glib -> gamin -> glib circular dependency)

>
> 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.
>

So configure option is not enough. Does separating gio-fam-backend by
original developers solve the problem better?

Alexey.